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File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences. | ||
| | File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation. | ||
||1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873) | ||1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873) | ||
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.