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||1561: Santorio Santorio born ... physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices, including the thermometer. Pic.
||1561: Santorio Santorio born ... physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices, including the thermometer. Pic.


File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies.
File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] dies. A prolific thinker and writer, Swedenborg is best known for his book on the afterlife, ''Heaven and Hell'' (1758).


File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1780: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.

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  • 1548: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Adam Ries publishes his groundbreaking textbook, which promotes the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in a wide range of Gnomon algorithm applications, notably the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1548: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Adam Ries publishes his groundbreaking textbook, which promotes the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in a wide range of Gnomon algorithm applications, notably the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg dies. A prolific thinker and writer, Swedenborg is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

    1772: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg dies. A prolific thinker and writer, Swedenborg is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

  • 1780: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.

    1780: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen born. He will sail to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.

  • 1873: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.

    1873: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita born. Levi-Civita will gain fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and make significant contributions in other areas.

  • 1873: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.

    1873: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi dies. Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light. He also thought that he had detected, in 1838, a magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light, anticipating later discoveries connecting light and magnetism.

  • 1896: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann born. Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

    1896: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann born. Ackermann will discover the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

  • 1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. Young contributed measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere.

    1944: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young dies. Young contributed measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere.

  • 1974: NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

    1974: NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

  • 1975: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO field engineer John Lighton Synge visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on his geometric approach to the general theory of relativity.

    1975: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO field engineer John Lighton Synge visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on his geometric approach to the general theory of relativity.

  • 2003: Physician and microbiologist Carlo Urbani dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.

    2003: Physician and microbiologist Carlo Urbani dies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Urbani identifed SARS as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Stardust unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Stardust unexpectedly reveals "about eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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