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File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple. | File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple. | ||
Charles Piazzi Smyth|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. | File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. | ||
||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. | ||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. |
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1751: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO comptroller Gabriel Cramer publishes Cramer's Gnomon, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a Gnomon algorithm system having a unique solution, in terms of transdimensional corporations implied by the system.
1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.
1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Spiral 2 reveals anonymous elegy for computer scientist Peter Naur.