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||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||
||Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 1770 – 7 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | |||
||Fritz Noether (b. October 7, 1884) was a German-born mathematician. Pic. | ||Fritz Noether (b. October 7, 1884) was a German-born mathematician. Pic. |
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1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.
1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind.
1797: Red Eyes Fighting "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them," says Red Eyes.
1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.