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||671 | ||671: Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. | ||
File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|940: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] born. His ''Almagest'' will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death. | File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|940: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] born. His ''Almagest'' will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death. | ||
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File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] causes outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] causes outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1692 | ||1692: Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". | ||
||1776 | ||1700: Ewald Georg von Kleist born ... jurist, Lutheran cleric, and physicist. On 11 October 1745 he independently invented the Kleistian jar which could store electricity in large quantities. He communicated this discovery to a group of Berlin scientists in late 1745, and the news was transferred in a confused form to Leyden University where it was further investigated. This became more commonly known as the Leyden jar after Gravesande's graduate student Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leyden. Pic: book page. | ||
||1776: Leopold Widhalm dies ... instrument maker. | |||
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship. | File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship. | ||
||Alvan Graham Clark | ||1832: Alvan Graham Clark born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. | ||
||1832 | ||1832: Nikolaus Otto born ... engineer. | ||
||Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (d. 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. | ||Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (d. 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. | ||
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940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1571: New method for predicting lottery winners causes outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1793: French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1972: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature.