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||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine. Pic.
||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine. Pic.
File:Tabulae_motuum_caelestium_universales_by_Vincentio_Reinieri_(1647).png|link=Vincentio Reinieri (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Vincentio Reinieri (nonfiction)|Vincentio Reinieri]] publishes his celebrated ''Tabulæ motuum gnomonicum universales'', which will influence generations of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime-fighting astronomers]].


File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
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||1765: Pierre-Simon Girard born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic.
||1765: Pierre-Simon Girard born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic.
File:Jesse Ramsden. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1790, after R. Home.jpg|link=Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|1775: Mathematician, scientific instrument maker, and [[APTO]] forensics engineer [[Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|Jesse Ramsden]] demonstrates his latest invention, a dividing engine which uses exceptionally high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths to detect and locate the alleged marine cryptid and supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
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||1889: Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann born ... electronic specialist who made several breakthroughs in the development of radar. Pic: https://radarworld.org/hans5.html
||1889: Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann born ... electronic specialist who made several breakthroughs in the development of radar. Pic: https://radarworld.org/hans5.html
||1903: Robert Emerson born ... scientist noted for his discovery that plants have two distinct photosynthetic reaction centers.


||1907: Horace Richard Crane born ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search.
||1907: Horace Richard Crane born ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search.
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||2014: S. Donald Stookey dies ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. ||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. Pic search.
||2014: S. Donald Stookey dies ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. ||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. Pic search.


File:Fire Dance.jpg|link=Fire Dance (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Fire Dance (nonfiction)|Fire Dance]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.

    1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.

  • 1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

    1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

  • 1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.

    1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.

  • 2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

    2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

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