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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.
1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

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 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 born: – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.
+||1820 born: Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.
 ||Johann Elert Bode (d. 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.