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||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802) | ||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802) | ||
|| | ||Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (b. 13 December 1780) was a German chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements and inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Pic. | ||
||1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717). Pic. | ||1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717). Pic. | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.