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|| | ||1505: Achilles Gasser born ... physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Pic. | ||
||1643: John Bainbridge dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1643: John Bainbridge dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||
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||1973: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet. | ||1973: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet. | ||
||1979: Raffaele Bendandi dies ... clockmaker known for his predictions of earthquakes. Bendandi was self-taught and never published a verifiable scientific exposition of his theory. Pic. | |||
||1980: Bronisław Knaster dies ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||1980: Bronisław Knaster dies ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||
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1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
1688: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin uses the double refraction of a light ray to detect and locate crimes against light. Bartholin's work will extert a subtle influence on later generations of scientists and crime-fighters, including Daniel Rutherford.
1911: Mathematician George Chrystal dies. He was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
1918: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov dies. Lyapunov contributed to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations were the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
1962: Physicist and APTO officer Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the separated oscillatory field method to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Vatican by agents of the House of Malevecchio.