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||1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891) | ||1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891) | ||
||Carl Anton Bjerknes (b. 24 October 1825) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. | |||
||1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) | ||1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.