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||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine. Pic. | ||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine. Pic. | ||
||Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search. | ||1848: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search. | ||
||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic. | ||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic. | ||
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1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.
1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.