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||1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729) | ||1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (d. 1729) | ||
|| | ||John Dollond FRS (b. 21 June 1706) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||
||1710 – James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768) | ||1710 – James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician (d. 1768) | ||
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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.
