Template:Selected anniversaries/January 3

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  • 1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

    1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

  • 1751: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO comptroller Gabriel Cramer publishes Cramer's Gnomon, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a Gnomon algorithm system having a unique solution, in terms of transdimensional corporations implied by the system.

    1751: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO comptroller Gabriel Cramer publishes Cramer's Gnomon, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a Gnomon algorithm system having a unique solution, in terms of transdimensional corporations implied by the system.

  • 1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot invented geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.

    1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot invented geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.

  • 1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Spiral 2 reveals anonymous elegy for computer scientist Peter Naur.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Spiral 2 reveals anonymous elegy for computer scientist Peter Naur.

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