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||1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705) | ||1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705) | ||
||John Keill (d. 1721) was a Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. | |||
||1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894) | ||1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894) | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."