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||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician. Pic.
||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician. Pic.


||1781: Bernard Bolzano born ... mathematician and philosopher ... logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views.
||1781: Bernard Bolzano born ... mathematician and philosopher ... logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest ... known for his antimilitarist views. Pic.


||1861: Thomas Little Heath born ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm
||1861: Thomas Little Heath born ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm

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