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||1647 | File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1647: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles. | ||
||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) | ||1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.