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||1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716) | ||1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716) | ||
||1736 | File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1736: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale. | ||
||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) | ||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.