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||1507: Johannes Sturm born ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic. | ||1507: Johannes Sturm born ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic. | ||
||1567: Humanist scholar Pietro Carnesecchi is beheaded and then burned by order of Pope Pius V. Pic. | |||
||1648: In a letter to Samuel Hartlib, Sir Balthazar Gerbier sends a description of Pascal's mechanical calculator. Wikipedia describes Gerbier as "an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer." | ||1648: In a letter to Samuel Hartlib, Sir Balthazar Gerbier sends a description of Pascal's mechanical calculator. Wikipedia describes Gerbier as "an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer." | ||
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||1768: Robert Simson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1768: Robert Simson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1838: Charles Tennant dies ... chemist and businessman. | ||1838: Charles Tennant dies ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | ||
||1842: Charles Cros | File:Charles_Cros.jpg|link=Charles Cros (nonfiction)|1842: Poet and inventor [[Charles Cros (nonfiction)|Charles Cros]] born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph. | ||
||1854: The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. | ||1854: The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. | ||
||1858: Alois Negrelli dies ... engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire. Pic. | |||
||1868: Georg Bredig born ... physical chemist. Pic. | ||1868: Georg Bredig born ... physical chemist. Pic. | ||
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]. | ||
||1888: Charles Jordan born ... magician. Pic search. | |||
||1894: Edgar Krahn born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1894: Edgar Krahn born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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||1990: John Stewart Bell dies ... physicist ... originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories. Pic. | ||1990: John Stewart Bell dies ... physicist ... originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories. Pic. | ||
File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|Paul Lorenzen]] dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz). | File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|Paul Lorenzen]] dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz). | ||
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||1999: Clement Markert dies ... biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). Refused to testify before HUAC. Pic: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0226899#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2153.0367%2C1291.2491%2C7243.7893%2C4105.7099 | ||1999: Clement Markert dies ... biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). Refused to testify before HUAC. Pic: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0226899#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2153.0367%2C1291.2491%2C7243.7893%2C4105.7099 | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:14, 7 February 2022
1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1842: Poet and inventor Charles Cros born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph.
1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).