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||1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906) | ||1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906) | ||
||Cassius Jackson Keyser (b. May 15, 1862) was an American mathematician | |||
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1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1864: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War.
1888: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.