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File:Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin.jpg|link=Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]] dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment. | File:Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin.jpg|link=Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]] dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment. | ||
||1627: John Ray born ... biologist and botanist. | ||1627: John Ray born ... biologist and botanist. He published important works on botany, zoology, and natural theology. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were classified according to a pre-conceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation. He was among the first to attempt a biological definition for the concept of species. Pic. | ||
File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1646: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] dies. | File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1646: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] dies. | ||
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||1866: Ernest William Brown born ... mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. He also studied the motion of the planets and calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids. | ||1866: Ernest William Brown born ... mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. He also studied the motion of the planets and calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids. | ||
||1872: Mary Somerville dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and author. Pic. | |||
||1873: Suzan Rose Benedict born ... mathematician and academic. She had a long teaching career at Smith College. Pic. | ||1873: Suzan Rose Benedict born ... mathematician and academic. She had a long teaching career at Smith College. Pic. | ||
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1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
1646: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus dies.
1693: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian uses Pascaline to detect and prevent an acute outbreak crimes against mathematical constants.
1759: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies. He introduced a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1878: Allegedly haunted London cholera map stolen by alleged supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
1904: John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
2010: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes dies. He pioneered several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.