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||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) | ||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) | ||
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1843 | File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1843: Sir [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. | ||
||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. | ||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. | ||
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1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.