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||1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717) | ||1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717) | ||
||Maximilian Hell (Hungarian: Hell Miksa) (d. April 14, 1792) was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. | |||
||1800 – John Appold, English engineer (d. 1865) | ||1800 – John Appold, English engineer (d. 1865) | ||
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1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
1934: John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1936: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses the theorem of the three geodesics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.