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File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | ||
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632) | ||1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
