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||1766: Wilhelm Hisinger born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1766: Wilhelm Hisinger born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1790: Jean-François Champollion born ... scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed many previous assumptions about ancient Egypt to be wrong, making it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. Pic. | |||
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born. He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]]. | File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born. He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]]. | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue City Sunset purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."