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|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations.
|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations.


||Pedro da Fonseca (d. 4 November 1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle.
||1599: Pedro da Fonseca dies ... Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle.


||1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (d. 1714) occupational medicine
||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine.


File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
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File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  


||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.
||1744: Johann III Bernoulli born ... 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 born ... mathematician and engineer.


||1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
||1847: Sir James Young Simpson ... physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
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File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.


||1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975)
||1887: Alfred Lee Loomis born ... physicist and philanthropist.


||Horace Richard Crane (b. November 4, 1907) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos.
||1907: Horace Richard Crane born ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos.


||1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005).
||1908: Joseph Rotblat born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Alvin Cushman Graves (b. November 4, 1909) was an American nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Pic.
||1909: Alvin Cushman Graves born ... nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Pic.
 
||1918: Lt-Col Edward Frank Harrison C.M.G. dies ... English chemical scientist, credited with the invention of the first serviceable gas mask during World War I. DOB/DOD: https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2016/07/07/edward-harrison-who-gave-his-life-developing-protection-against-poison-gas/ Pic.


||1921: Mary Sherman Morgan born ... scientist and engineer.
||1921: Mary Sherman Morgan born ... scientist and engineer.

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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.

    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.

  • 1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

    1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

  • 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.

    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.

    1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.

  • 2017: Fire Dance voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Fire Dance voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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