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||1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and author (b. 1503) | ||1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and author (b. 1503) | ||
||Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (d. July 2, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Pic - book cover. | |||
||1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560) | ||1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560) | ||
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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.