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||1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865) "forecasts" | ||1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865) "forecasts" | ||
||Karl Christoph Vogt ( | ||Karl Christoph Vogt (d. 5 July 1817) was a German scientist, philosopher and politician | ||
||1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872) | ||1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872) | ||
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||Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. (b. July 5, 1930) was an American mathematician. Pic. | ||Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. (b. July 5, 1930) was an American mathematician. Pic. | ||
||René-Louis Baire ( | ||René-Louis Baire (d. 5 July 1932) was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1939: "''The Safe-Cracker'' was not a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it." | File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1939: "''The Safe-Cracker'' was not a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it." | ||
||Oskar Bolza (d. 5 July 1942) was a German mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||
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1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
1939: "The Safe-Cracker was not a math crime," says art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
2017: Pin Man #1 is "a work in progress," says author Karl Jones. "I have characters sketches, and cover art, but I'm still thinking about the stories."