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||1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596) | |||
||1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723) | |||
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | ||
||1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729) | |||
||1706 – John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (d. 1761) | |||
||1710 – James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768) | |||
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics. | |||
||1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland. | |||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans. | File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans. | ||
||1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law. | |||
||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | |||
||2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. | |||
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Revision as of 21:12, 23 August 2017
1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
