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||1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617) | ||1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617) | ||
||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (b. 1692) was an Italian philosopher and writer. | ||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (b. 1692) 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. | ||
||1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | ||1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
