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||1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
||1508: Alessandro Piccolomini born ... astronomer and philosopher.


||1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591)
||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker.


File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
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File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.


||Georges-Louis Le Sage (French: [lə saʒ]; b. 13 June 1724) was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases.  
||1724: Georges-Louis Le Sage born ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases.  


||Johan Afzelius (13 June 1753 in Larv – 20 May 1837 in Uppsala) was a Swedish chemist and notable as the doctoral advisor of one of the founders of modern chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius. He was the brother of botanist Adam Afzelius and physician Pehr von Afzelius.
||1753: Johan Afzelius born ... chemist and notable as the doctoral advisor of one of the founders of modern chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius. He was the brother of botanist Adam Afzelius and physician Pehr von Afzelius.


||1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829) Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was an English polymath and physician. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
||1773: Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.


||William Austin Burt (b. June 13, 1792) was an American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.
||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.


||Osip Ivanovich Somov (b. 13 June 1815) was a Russian mathematician.
||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician.


||1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894) He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.
||1822: Carl Schmidt born ... chemist and academic. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
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File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1854: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1854: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.


||1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
||1868: Wallace Clement Sabine born ... physicist and academic.


||1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
||1870: Jules Bordet born ... immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
||1871: Ernst Steinitz born ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/


||1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
||1876: William Sealy Gosset born ... chemist and statistician.


||1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (d. 2000)
||1884: Leon Chwistek born ... painter, philosopher, and mathematician.


||1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
||1902: Carolyn Eisele born ... mathematician and historian.


||1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
||1903: Willard Harrison Bennett born ... physicist and chemist.


||1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
||1906: Bruno de Finetti born ... mathematician and statistician.
 
||1911: Luis Walter Alvarez born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
||1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)

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  • 1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

    1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

  • 1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • 1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

    1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

  • 1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

    1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

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