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||925: Rhazes dies ... polymath. | ||925: Rhazes dies ... polymath. Wik no DOB/DOD. Pic: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101651472-img | ||
||1564: Andreas Vesalius dies ... anatomist, physician, and author. | ||1564: Andreas Vesalius dies ... anatomist, physician, and author. PIc. | ||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles. | File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles. | ||
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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] discovers secret [[math crime]] gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all hang." | File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] discovers secret [[math crime]] gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all hang." | ||
||1715: Humphry Ditton dies ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1715: Humphry Ditton dies ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Humphry+Ditton+mathematician | ||
||1745: George Atwood baptized ... mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the effects of Newton's first law of motion. Pic: https://alchetron.com/George-Atwood | ||1745: George Atwood baptized ... mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the effects of Newton's first law of motion. Pic: https://alchetron.com/George-Atwood | ||
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1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei discovers secret math crime gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all hang."
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein calls Gene Krupa "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation."
1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.
2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.