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File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1748: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]'s interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown. | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1748: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]'s interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown. | ||
File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847 | File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847. | ||
||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+wilbraham | ||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+wilbraham | ||
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1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.
1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.
1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.
1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
2016: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly generates "at least two, probably four, and perhaps as many as eight" organic golems.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.
