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||1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519) | ||1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519) | ||
||1603 | ||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. | ||
||1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. | ||1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. | ||
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1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1943: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1964: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press republished using latest high-energy literature techniques.