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||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.
||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.
||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.


File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1772: Mathematician and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] publishes his ''Théorie générale des équations gnomoniques'' contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1772: Mathematician and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] publishes his ''Théorie générale des équations gnomoniques'' contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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