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||1667: Jacob Golius dies ... mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic. | ||1667: Jacob Golius dies ... mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic. | ||
||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. | ||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian. No DOB. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=gabriel+mouton | ||
||1824: George Johnston Allman born ... professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics. | ||1819: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol born. He will invent the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Pic. | ||
||1824: George Johnston Allman born ... professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1852: Henri Moissan born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1852: Henri Moissan born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
2016: Blue Green Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.