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||Gregorio Fontana (d. 24 August 1803) was an Italian mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. | ||Gregorio Fontana (d. 24 August 1803) was an Italian mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. | ||
||Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (b. 24 August 1821) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. | |||
||1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891) | ||1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891) | ||
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1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.