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File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.


||1645: William Kidd born ... sailor and pirate hunter.
||1645: William Kidd born ... sailor and pirate hunter. Pic.


||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist.
||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist. Pic.
 
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1673: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).
|*Stephen Inwood, The Forgotten Genius: The Biography Of Robert Hooke 1635-1703


File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.
||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker.


||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist.
||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.


File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.


||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.
||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism. Pic.


||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist.
||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.


||1865: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen born ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.
||1865: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen born ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.
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||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.
||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.


||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"
||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Emanuel+Wallin


||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.

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