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||1854: John Park Finley born ... meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively. He also wrote the first known book on the subject as well as many other manuals and booklets, collected vast climatological data, set up a nationwide weather observer network, started one of the first private weather enterprises, and opened an early aviation weather school. Pic.
||1854: John Park Finley born ... meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively. He also wrote the first known book on the subject as well as many other manuals and booklets, collected vast climatological data, set up a nationwide weather observer network, started one of the first private weather enterprises, and opened an early aviation weather school. Pic.


||1869: Otto Linné Erdmann dies ... chemist.
||1875: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe dies ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Pic.
 
||1875: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe dies ... astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots.


||1894: Mathematician Paul Finsler born. Finsler spaces will be named after him by Élie Cartan in 1934. The Hadwiger–Finsler inequality, a relation between the side lengths and area of a triangle in the Euclidean plane, is named after Finsler and his co-author Hugo Hadwiger, as is the Finsler–Hadwiger theorem on a square derived from two other squares that share a vertex. Pic: https://neurosophie.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/paul-finsler-und-eine-welt-ohne-widerspruche/  
||1894: Mathematician Paul Finsler born. Finsler spaces will be named after him by Élie Cartan in 1934. The Hadwiger–Finsler inequality, a relation between the side lengths and area of a triangle in the Euclidean plane, is named after Finsler and his co-author Hugo Hadwiger, as is the Finsler–Hadwiger theorem on a square derived from two other squares that share a vertex. Pic: https://neurosophie.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/paul-finsler-und-eine-welt-ohne-widerspruche/  

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