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||1811: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne dies ... fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. Pic. | ||1811: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne dies ... fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. Pic. | ||
||1841: Frank Haven Hall born ...inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. | ||1841: Frank Haven Hall born ...inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. Pic. | ||
||1846: Wilhelm Maybach born ... engineer and businessman, founded Maybach. | ||1846: Wilhelm Maybach born ... engineer and businessman, founded Maybach. | ||
||1854: Aletta Jacobs ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic. | ||1854: Aletta Jacobs born ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic. | ||
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1863: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] performs emergency field surgery on fellow surgeon and alleged time-traveller [[Asclepius Myrmidon]], saving Myrmidon's life. Lister will later privately reported that his theories on surgical hygiene "were resolutely confirmed and endorsed, nay demanded, by Myrmidon." | File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1863: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] performs emergency field surgery on fellow surgeon and alleged time-traveller [[Asclepius Myrmidon]], saving Myrmidon's life. Lister will later privately reported that his theories on surgical hygiene "were resolutely confirmed and endorsed, nay demanded, by Myrmidon." | ||
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1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs new type of airship powered by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1863: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister performs emergency field surgery on fellow surgeon and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon, saving Myrmidon's life. Lister will later privately reported that his theories on surgical hygiene "were resolutely confirmed and endorsed, nay demanded, by Myrmidon."
1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1936: Inventor and APTO associate Edward Hugh Hebern discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use rotor encryption machines to generate cryptographic numina.
1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous loxodromic sequence of tangent circles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1979: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
2018: Signed first edition of Fire Dance stolen from the Louvre in a daytime robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.