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||1660: André Tacquet dies ... priest and mathematician ... adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover. | ||1660: André Tacquet dies ... priest and mathematician ... adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. | ||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. No DOB. Pic: coat of arms. | ||
||1693: Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius dies ... one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts". She was also the second wife of fellow astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Pic. | ||1693: Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius dies ... one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts". She was also the second wife of fellow astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Pic. | ||
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File:Johann Friedrich Pfaff.jpg|link=Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|Johann Friedrich Pfaff]] born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms. | File:Johann Friedrich Pfaff.jpg|link=Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|Johann Friedrich Pfaff]] born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms. | ||
||1788: Percivall Pott dies ...physician and surgeon .. | ||1788: Percivall Pott dies ...physician and surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen. Pic. | ||
||1799: Nicholas Callan born ... priest and physicist. | ||1799: Nicholas Callan born ... priest and physicist. | ||
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||1859: Otto Ludwig Hölder dies ... mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic. | ||1859: Otto Ludwig Hölder dies ... mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic. | ||
||1867: Jean-Victor Poncelet dies ... French mathematician and engineer. | ||1867: Jean-Victor Poncelet dies ... French mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1869: Dmitri Egorov born ... mathematician and academic ... known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||1869: Dmitri Egorov born ... mathematician and academic ... known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.