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||1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. | ||1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. | ||
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter. | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter. | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.