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||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer.
||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer.


||1786: Alexander Wilson dies ... surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations.
||1786: Alexander Wilson dies ... surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations. No DOB. Pic.


||1793: John Hunter dies ... surgeon and philosopher.
||1793: John Hunter dies ... surgeon and philosopher.
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||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.
||1923: Cyril Andrew Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life.


||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician.
||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic.


||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution.
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution.

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  • 1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

    1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

  • 1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

    1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

  • 1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

    1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

  • 1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

    2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

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