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||1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799) | ||1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799) | ||
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane. | |||
||1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) Isaac Todhunter FRS (23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884), was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. | ||1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) Isaac Todhunter FRS (23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884), was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. | ||
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1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.