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||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. | ||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online. | ||
||1382: Nicole Oresme dies ... philosopher ... polymath. | ||1382: Nicole Oresme dies ... philosopher ... polymath. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1405: Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. | ||1405: Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time ... consisted of a fleet of 317 ships holding almost 28,000 crewmen. Pic. | ||
||1603: Kenelm Digby born ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||1603: Kenelm Digby born ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||
||1709: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius born ... chemist and mineralogist. Wallerius will be regarded as the founder of agricultural chemistry, mainly based on the significance of his widely disseminated work ''Agriculturae fundamenta chemica''. Pic. | |||
||1709: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius born ... chemist and mineralogist. | |||
File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century. | File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century. | ||
||1754: Thomas Bowdler born ... physician and philanthropist. | ||1754: Thomas Bowdler born ... physician and philanthropist ... best known for publishing ''The Family Shakspeare'', an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1774: Professor Robert Jameson born ... naturalist and mineralogist. Pic. | ||1774: Professor Robert Jameson born ... naturalist and mineralogist. Pic. | ||
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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.