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||1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866) | ||1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866) | ||
||William Chauvenet (b. 24 May 1820) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic. | |||
||1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) | ||1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) | ||
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1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.
1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1891: Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.
1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1944: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) reveals Nazi efforts to use Gnomon algorithm functions for rocket propulsion.
1963: Plutonium used for crimes against mathematical constants, says John Brunner.