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1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars
1888: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.
1888: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to seize control of Brownian racket.
1889: Canterbury scrying engine generates new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

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-– Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1764)
-– William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782)
-– Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903)
-– John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (d. 1932)
-– Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
-– Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)
-– Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.