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||1834: Gilbert Blane dies ... physician who, when head of the Navy Medical Board, required (1795) a diet including lemon juice on navy vessels, which virtually eliminated scurvy and its significant lost manpower due to sickness of sailors. The value of citrus juice had been established by James Lind, with his Treatice on Scurvy (1754). Blane also improved sanitary conditions in the Navy by providing supplies of soap and medicines, and was involved with designing rules that were precursors to modern quarantine conditions. He required every surgeon in the service to make regular returns or journals of the state of health and disease onboard their ship. In 1829, he established a prize medal as an incentive for the surgeon producing the best journal. Pic. | ||1834: Gilbert Blane dies ... physician who, when head of the Navy Medical Board, required (1795) a diet including lemon juice on navy vessels, which virtually eliminated scurvy and its significant lost manpower due to sickness of sailors. The value of citrus juice had been established by James Lind, with his Treatice on Scurvy (1754). Blane also improved sanitary conditions in the Navy by providing supplies of soap and medicines, and was involved with designing rules that were precursors to modern quarantine conditions. He required every surgeon in the service to make regular returns or journals of the state of health and disease onboard their ship. In 1829, he established a prize medal as an incentive for the surgeon producing the best journal. Pic. | ||
||1877: Giovanni Santini dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Both as a practical and theoretical astronomer, Santini made the Observatory of Padua famous. He determined the latitude of Padua, and assisted the astronomical and geodetic service of Italy by making observations in longitude. He acquired his greatest repute by his calculations of the orbital disturbances during the period from 1832-1852 caused by the great planets on the comet of Biela. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Santini | ||1877: Giovanni Santini dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Both as a practical and theoretical astronomer, Santini made the Observatory of Padua famous. He determined the latitude of Padua, and assisted the astronomical and geodetic service of Italy by making observations in longitude. He acquired his greatest repute by his calculations of the orbital disturbances during the period from 1832-1852 caused by the great planets on the comet of Biela. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Santini | ||
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1274: Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.