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||1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
||1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.


||1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist (d. 1794)
File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1743: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] born.


File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1826: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1826: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

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  • 1743: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet born.

    1743: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet born.

  • 1826: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

    1826: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

  • 1855: Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.

    1855: Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.

  • 1857: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.

    1857: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.

  • 1994: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

    1994: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with "inspiring generations of astronauts."

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with "inspiring generations of astronauts."

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