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||1602: Athanasius Kircher born ... scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honored with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". Pic. | ||1602: Athanasius Kircher born ... scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honored with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". Pic. | ||
||1611: The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. | ||1611: The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. Pic: Bible. | ||
||1683: Stjepan Gradić dies ... philosopher and mathematician. Pic. | ||1683: Stjepan Gradić dies ... philosopher and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1802: Heinrich Gustav Magnus born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||1802: Heinrich Gustav Magnus born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1844: Elijah J. McCoy born ... inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | ||1844: Elijah J. McCoy born ... inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. Pic. | ||
||1845: The Yarmouth Bridge collapsed under load from a crowd who had gathered to watch a circus stunt on the river. Some 79 people, mainly children, were killed. An investigation found fault with the design and workmanship of the bridge. Pic. | ||1845: The Yarmouth Bridge collapsed under load from a crowd who had gathered to watch a circus stunt on the river. Some 79 people, mainly children, were killed. An investigation found fault with the design and workmanship of the bridge. Pic. | ||
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||1860: William Bayliss dies ... physiologist who, in 1902 co-discovered the first hormone (with the British physiologist Ernest H. Starling). They found a certain chemical substance is secreted when food comes into contact with part of the small intestine. This chemical substance, which they named secretin, upon being carried by the blood to the pancreas, stimulates the secretion of pancreatic juice, the most important of the digestive juices. They coined the word “hormone” based on a Greek word for “to set in motion.” Bayliss also studied the use of saline injections to counteract shock during surgery. He proposed the use of gum-saline injections for wound shock to saved many lives of wounded soldiers in WW I. Pic. | ||1860: William Bayliss dies ... physiologist who, in 1902 co-discovered the first hormone (with the British physiologist Ernest H. Starling). They found a certain chemical substance is secreted when food comes into contact with part of the small intestine. This chemical substance, which they named secretin, upon being carried by the blood to the pancreas, stimulates the secretion of pancreatic juice, the most important of the digestive juices. They coined the word “hormone” based on a Greek word for “to set in motion.” Bayliss also studied the use of saline injections to counteract shock during surgery. He proposed the use of gum-saline injections for wound shock to saved many lives of wounded soldiers in WW I. Pic. | ||
||1867: Giuseppe Morello born ... mobster. | ||1867: Giuseppe Morello born ... mobster. Pic. | ||
||1868: Robert | ||1868: Robert W. Wood born ... physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Pic. | ||
||1885: Mauro Picone born ... mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic. | ||1885: Mauro Picone born ... mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic. | ||
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1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.