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||1740: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar.
||1740: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar.
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1750: [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, ''Instituzioni Analitiche'', a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope sends her a gold medal, a wreath laid with precious stones and named her honorary professor at the University of Bologna.


||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician.
||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician.

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