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||1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath | ||1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath | ||
||Georges-Louis Le Sage (French: [lə saʒ]; d. 9 November 1803) was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. | |||
||1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. | ||1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. | ||
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1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.