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||1564: Andreas Vesalius dies ... anatomist, physician, and author. PIc. | ||1564: Andreas Vesalius dies ... anatomist, physician, and author. PIc. | ||
||1589: Jacopo Zabarella dies ... philosopher and logician. Zabarella's work reflects his teaching in the Aristotelian tradition; he devoted much effort to presenting what he considered to be the true meaning of Aristotle's texts. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacopo+zabarella | |||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles. | File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles. | ||
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||1763: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Georg+Tralles | ||1763: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Georg+Tralles | ||
||1783: The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. | ||1783: The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. Pic. | ||
||1789: William Christopher Zeise born ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic. | ||1789: William Christopher Zeise born ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic. | ||
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1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei discovers secret math crime gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all hang."
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein calls Gene Krupa "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation."
1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.
2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
