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||1657: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle dies ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic.
||1657: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle dies ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic.
File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1760: First known use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1800: William Henry Fox Talbot born ... scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work, in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction, led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Pic.
||1800: William Henry Fox Talbot born ... scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work, in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction, led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Pic.
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||1924: Jacques Loeb dies ... American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic.
||1924: Jacques Loeb dies ... American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic.
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
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||1942: Egbert van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
||1942: Egbert van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.png|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1947: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic.
||1947: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic.
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||2009: Willem Johan Kolff born ... physician and inventor ... pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Pic.
||2009: Willem Johan Kolff born ... physician and inventor ... pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Pic.
File:Wheel of Fire 2.jpg|link=Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|2019: ''[[Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|Wheel of Fire 2]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. Mangini supported a geocentric system of the world, and defended the use of astrology in medicine, but also made practical contributions to mathematics and physics.

  • 1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

    1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

  • 1626: Mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi dies. Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he also discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.

    1626: Mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi dies. Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; he also discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. Descartes is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. Edison will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. Szilard will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. Szilard will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. Parsons invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

    2008: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies. Samarskii contributed to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.

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