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||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html
||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html


||1739: Eustachio Manfredi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and poet.
||1739: Eustachio Manfredi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and poet. Pic.


||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe.
||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe.
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||1925: The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
||1925: The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
||1931: Lillian Leitzel born ... acrobat and strongwoman. Pic.


||1933: Pat Sullivan dies ... animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat.
||1933: Pat Sullivan dies ... animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat.

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  • 1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".

    1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".

  • 1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

    1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

  • 1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.

    1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.

  • 1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

    1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

  • 1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

    1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

  • 1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

    1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

  • 2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

    2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

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