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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1826: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1985: Ridley Scott revisits his documentary film Alien, tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version.

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 ||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. Pic document; no birth/death.
-File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] publishes ''Atlas Coelestis Gnomonicis'', his landmark study of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
+File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] publishes ''Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis'', his landmark study of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
 ||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author.