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||1492: Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time | ||1492: Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. | ||
||1522: The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. Pic. | ||1522: The ''Victoria'', the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. Pic. | ||
File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying. | File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying. | ||
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File:Birkeland terrella spiral nebula.jpg|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1901: Aurora researcher and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates an experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] which detects and prevents [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crimes against the ionosphere]], usually categorized as an astronomy crime, but also widely seen as a [[Crimes against light|crime against light]]. | File:Birkeland terrella spiral nebula.jpg|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1901: Aurora researcher and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates an experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] which detects and prevents [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crimes against the ionosphere]], usually categorized as an astronomy crime, but also widely seen as a [[Crimes against light|crime against light]]. | ||
||1902: Frederick Abel born ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. | ||1902: Frederick Abel born ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic. | ||
||1906: Luis Federico Leloir born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1906: Luis Federico Leloir born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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||2012: Rita Harriet Harradence dies ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic. | ||2012: Rita Harriet Harradence dies ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic. | ||
||2012: Jerome Horwitz dies ... chemist and academic. Horwitz synthesized a compound that was to become known as zidovudine (AZT) - an antiviral drug used to treat HIV patients; Zidovudine was initially developed as a treatment for cancer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jerome+horwitz+chemist | |||
||2017: Lotfi Zadeh dies ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | ||2017: Lotfi Zadeh dies ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | ||
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1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.
1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.
1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1901: Aurora researcher and Gnomon algorithm theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates an experimental Terrella which detects and prevents crimes against the ionosphere, usually categorized as an astronomy crime, but also widely seen as a crime against light.
2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
2008: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Eye Foot "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.