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||1768: Jędrzej Śniadecki born ... writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry. Pic. | ||1768: Jędrzej Śniadecki born ... writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1781: Alexander Berry born ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. | ||1781: Alexander Berry born ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. Pic. | ||
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
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File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1829: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1829: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. | ||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Reflecting circle. Pic. | ||
||1831: Sir William Henry Flower born ... surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. Pic. | ||1831: Sir William Henry Flower born ... surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. Pic. | ||
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File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | ||
||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. | ||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1845: Nils Gabriel Sefström dies ... chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nils_Gabriel_Sefstr%C3%B6m_(1787-1845)_3.png | ||1845: Nils Gabriel Sefström dies ... chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nils_Gabriel_Sefstr%C3%B6m_(1787-1845)_3.png | ||
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||1869: Gustaf Dalén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1869: Gustaf Dalén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1873: Alexander Berry dies ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. | ||1873: Alexander Berry dies ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. Pic. | ||
||1874: Friedrich Hasenöhrl born ... physicist. Pic. | ||1874: Friedrich Hasenöhrl born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 18:54, 29 November 2019
3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
