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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1618: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes his essay ''[[Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)|Man's Inhumanity to Man]]'', which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1618: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes his essay ''[[Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)|Man's Inhumanity to Man]]'', which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.


||1626: Pietro Cataldi dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic: book cover.
File:Due lettioni date nella academia erigenda dove si mostra come si trovi la grandezza delle superficie rettilinee.jpg|link=Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|1626: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|Pietro Cataldi]] dies. Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he also discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.


||1635: Sir Charles Cavendish writes to William Oughtred to thank him for teaching him, "the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod." He also passes on praise for Oughtred’s, “Clavis is in great estimation amongst the mathematicians at Paris.“ *Augustus De Morgan, Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century ..., Volume 1 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html
||1635: Sir Charles Cavendish writes to William Oughtred to thank him for teaching him, "the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod." He also passes on praise for Oughtred’s, “Clavis is in great estimation amongst the mathematicians at Paris.“ *Augustus De Morgan, Correspondence of scientific men of the seventeenth century ..., Volume 1 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-11.html

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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

  • 1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

    1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

  • 1626: Mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi dies. Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he also discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.

    1626: Mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi dies. Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he also discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. Szilard will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. Szilard will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • 1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

    2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

  • 2019: Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2019: Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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