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||1539: Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius born ... scholar, printer and bookseller, working at Antwerp and later at Leiden. For the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. Pic. | ||1539: Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius born ... scholar, printer and bookseller, working at Antwerp and later at Leiden. For the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. Pic. | ||
||1630: Roche Braziliano born ... pirate. | ||1630: Roche Braziliano born ... pirate. DOB uncertain? Pic. | ||
File:Pascaline.jpg|link=Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|1670: First known use of [[Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|Pascal's calculator]] in [[high-energy literature]] experiments. | File:Pascaline.jpg|link=Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|1670: First known use of [[Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|Pascal's calculator]] in [[high-energy literature]] experiments. | ||
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File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat. | File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat. | ||
||1748: Anders Sparrman born ... physician and activist. | ||1748: Anders Sparrman born ... physician and activist. Pic. | ||
||1867: Irving Fisher born ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic. | ||1867: Irving Fisher born ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic. | ||
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||1887: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic. | ||1887: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1894: Carl | ||1894: Carl Schmidt dies ... chemist ... determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc. Pic. | ||
||1899: Charles Herbert Best born ... physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin. | ||1899: Charles Herbert Best born ... physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin. | ||
Revision as of 07:48, 26 February 2019
1670: First known use of Pascal's calculator in high-energy literature experiments.
1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.
1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.
2018: Two Creatures 6 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.