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File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
||1793: John Mudge dies ... physician and engineer. No DOB. Pic.


||1797: James Hutton born ... geologist and physician. Pic.
||1797: James Hutton born ... geologist and physician. Pic.

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  • 1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

    1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

  • 1792: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

    1792: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

  • 1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".

    1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".

  • 1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

    1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

  • 1909: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1909: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.

    1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.

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