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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists. | ||
File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | ||
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782) | |||
||1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. | |||
||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | |||
||1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876) | |||
||1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903) | |||
||1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908) | |||
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | ||
||1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers. | |||
||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958) | |||
||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948) | |||
||1899 – Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. (d.1994) | |||
||1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973) no pic | |||
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | ||
||1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015) - also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren. | |||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
||1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. | |||
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Revision as of 11:07, 3 September 2017
1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.