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File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.
File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.


||1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth born ... astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pic.
Charles Piazzi Smyth|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer
[[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. He will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.


||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.

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