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||1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
||1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.


File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.


File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=|1801: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions, based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
||1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
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File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is funded by a [[Brownian racket]].
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is funded by a [[Brownian racket]].
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1967: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.


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