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||1603: William Gilbert dies ... scientist. | ||1603: William Gilbert dies ... scientist. | ||
||1647: Bonaventura Cavalieri dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||1647: Bonaventura Cavalieri dies ... mathematician and astronomer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. Pic document; no birth/death. | ||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. Pic document; no birth/death. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||
||1761: John Dollond dies ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||1761: John Dollond dies ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 05:40, 20 February 2019
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.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
