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||1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Hooke’s ''Micrographia'' at his bookseller and orders a copy. “Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it.” *Pepy’s Diary https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-2.html
Hooke_microscope.png|link=Micrographia (nonfiction)|1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Robert Hooke’s ''[[Micrographia (nonfiction)|Micrographia]]'' at his bookseller and orders a copy. Pepys writes in his diary: "Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it."
|*Pepy’s Diary https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-2.html


||1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born ... shipbuilder and merchant. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._A._Laffon_de_Ladebat.jpg
||1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born ... shipbuilder and merchant. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._A._Laffon_de_Ladebat.jpg
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File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.


||1913: Léon Teisserenc de Bort dies ... meteorologist and climatologist ... credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902.[1] Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause. Pic.
||1913: Léon Teisserenc de Bort dies ... meteorologist and climatologist ... credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902. Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause. Pic.


||1918: Willi Graf born ... physician and activist. Pic.
||1918: Willi Graf born ... physician and activist. Pic.


||1918: Beatrice Hicks born ... engineer. Pic.
||1918: Beatrice Hicks born ... engineer. Pic.
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|1919: New type of [[Scrying engine|scrying engine]] used to predict [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1920: George Herbig born ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Herbig
||1920: George Herbig born ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Herbig
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||1943: Janet Akyüz Mattei born ... astronomer. Pic.
||1943: Janet Akyüz Mattei born ... astronomer. Pic.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of ''[[Field Report Number One (V-2)|Field Report Number One]]''.


||1955: Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated. Pic: statue.
||1955: Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated. Pic: statue.
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|File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.
|File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.
File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2002: The unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' makes radio contact with [[AESOP]], the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere. [[AESOP]] will then make contact with the ''[[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' spacecraft, allowing ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' and ''[[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' to exchange flight data.


File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft ''[[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft ''[[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
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||2015: Tihomir Novakov dies ... physicist and academic. He is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. Pic.
||2015: Tihomir Novakov dies ... physicist and academic. He is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. Pic.
File:Stardust.jpg|link=Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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Latest revision as of 21:03, 2 January 2026

  • 1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia at his bookseller and orders a copy. Pepys writes in his diary: "Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it."

    1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia at his bookseller and orders a copy. Pepys writes in his diary: "Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it."

  • 1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

  • 1892: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

    1892: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

  • 1904: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler born. He will make contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

    1904: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler born. He will make contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

  • 1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.

    1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.

  • 1920: Writer Isaac Asimov born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.

    1920: Writer Isaac Asimov born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.

  • 1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

    1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

  • 2004: The robotic spacecraft Stardust flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.

    2004: The robotic spacecraft Stardust flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.

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