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||1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625) | ||1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625) | ||
||Johann III Bernoulli (b. 4 November 1744), grandson of Johann Bernoulli, and son of Johann II Bernoulli. He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic. | |||
||1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) | ||1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.