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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."


||1660 – André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1612) Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles.
||1660: André Tacquet dies ... priest and mathematician ... adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles.


||Jean de Beaugrand (d. 22 December 1640) was the foremost French lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid.  
||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid.  


||Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius (d. December 22, 1693) is considered one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts". She was also the second wife of fellow astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Pic.
||1693: Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius dies ... one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts". She was also the second wife of fellow astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Pic.


File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
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File:Johann Friedrich Pfaff.jpg|link=Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|Johann Friedrich Pfaff]] born.  He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
File:Johann Friedrich Pfaff.jpg|link=Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|Johann Friedrich Pfaff]] born.  He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.


||1788 – Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) Environmental cancer
||1788: Percivall Pott dies ...physician and surgeon ... Environmental cancer


||1799 – Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist (d. 1864)
||1799: Nicholas Callan born ... priest and physicist.


||Louis François Clément Breguet (b. 22 December 1804), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.
||1804: Louis François Clément Breguet born ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.


||1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (d. 1892)
||1819: Pierre Ossian Bonnet born ... mathematician and academic.


||Francesco Brioschi (b. 22 December 1824) was an Italian mathematician.
||1824: Francesco Brioschi born ... mathematician.


||1828 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766). Pic.
||1828: William Hyde Wollaston dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic.


||1839 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917)
||1839 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917)
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File:Srinivasa_Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and theorist [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.  
File:Srinivasa_Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and theorist [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.  


||Eduard Schönfeld (b. December 22, 1828) was a German astronomer.
||1828: Eduard Schönfeld born ... astronomer.


||1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
||1891: Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.


||Herman Potočnik (b. 22 December 1892) was a Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics). He is chiefly remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space. Pic.
||1892: Herman Potočnik born ... rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics). He is chiefly remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space. Pic.


File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason.
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason.


||1898 – Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)
||1897: Vojtěch Jarník born ... mathematician and academic ... ... the namesake of Jarník's algorithm for minimum spanning trees. Jarník worked in number theory, mathematical analysis, and graph algorithms ... also: he found tight bounds on the number of lattice points on convex curves, studied the relationship between the Hausdorff dimension of sets of real numbers and how well they can be approximated by rational numbers, and investigated the properties of nowhere differentiable functions. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Vojt%C4%9Bch-Jarn%C3%ADk


||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (b. 22 December 1905) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
||1898: Vladimir Fock born ... physicist and mathematician.
 
||1905: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers born ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.


||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (b. 22 December 1906) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.
||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (b. 22 December 1906) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.

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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

    1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

    1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

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