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||1500: Solomon Molcho born ... mystic. | ||1500: Solomon Molcho born ... mystic. | ||
||1515 | ||1515: Johann Weyer born ... physician ... Demonologist. | ||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600). | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600). | ||
||1561 | ||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster. | ||
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. | File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. | ||
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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
||1769 | ||1769: Jane Marcet born ... science writer. | ||
||Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde | ||1796: Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde dies ... mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. Pic: http://serge.mehl.free.fr/chrono/Vandermonde.html | ||
||1803 | ||1803: Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1806 | ||1806: Lionel Kieseritzky born ... chess player. | ||
||1808 | ||1808: The United States bans the importation of slaves. | ||
||1817 | ||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic. | ||
||Eugène-Anatole Demarçay | ||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic. | ||
||1854 | ||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic. | ||
||1859 | ||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor. | ||
||1862 | ||1862: Mikhail Ostrogradsky dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada). | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada). | ||
||1867 | ||1867: Mary Ackworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. | ||
||1874 | ||1874: Gustave Whitehead born ... pilot and engineer. | ||
||1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929) | ||1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929) | ||
Revision as of 11:09, 31 August 2018
1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses Gnomon algorithm to forecast theoretical existence of dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
1978: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.
1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1933: Ready Kilowatt makes cameo appearance in Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.