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||1623: Stanisław Lubieniecki born ... astronomer, theologian, and historian.
||1623: Stanisław Lubieniecki born ... astronomer, theologian, and historian.
||1768: Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet born ... surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.


||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic.
||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic.
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||1806: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb dies ... physicist and engineer.
||1806: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb dies ... physicist and engineer.
||1811: Auguste Bravais born ... physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.


File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] born. He will write ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] born. He will write ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
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||1875: William Eccles born ... physicist and engineer.
||1875: William Eccles born ... physicist and engineer.


||1811: Auguste Bravais born ... physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.
||1885: Henry Thomas Tizard ... chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_23.htm


||1893: Joseph Fels Ritt born ... mathematician
||1893: Joseph Fels Ritt born ... mathematician
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||1923: Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton dies ... engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
||1923: Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton dies ... engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
||1926: Clifford James Geertz born ... an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." Pic.


File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|1946: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|1946: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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  • 1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

    1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

  • 1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

    1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

  • 1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

    1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

  • 2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

    2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

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