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||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word ''chaos'') into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word ''chaos'') into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||
File:Sir_Samuel_Morland_by_Sir_Peter_Lely.jpg|link=Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician [[Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|Samuel Morland]] dies. Morland | File:Sir_Samuel_Morland_by_Sir_Peter_Lely.jpg|link=Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician [[Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|Samuel Morland]] dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power. | ||
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
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1563: Mathematician, fencer, and APTO field engineer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.