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||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. | ||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. | ||
||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. | ||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. | ||
||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom. | ||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom. | ||
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1125: Canterbury scrying engine computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.