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||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. | ||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. | ||
||1680: Athanasius Kircher dies ... scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honored with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". Pic. | |||
||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||
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||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Pic. | ||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Pic. | ||
||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. | ||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. He simplied the production of celluloid, the first industrial plastic. Pic. | ||
||1858: William Stanley Jr. born ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic. | ||1858: William Stanley Jr. born ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic. | ||
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1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Laurentius Paulinus Gothus publishes his landmark study Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.