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||1771: John Bevis dies ... physician and astronomer.
||1771: John Bevis dies ... physician and astronomer.
||1781: Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana born ... astronomer and mathematician. Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the Moon, as well as integrals, (including the Abel–Plana formula), elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics, and geodesy. Pic.


||1808: Friedrich Julius Richelot born ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic.
||1808: Friedrich Julius Richelot born ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic.

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