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||1549: Henry Savile born ... scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English. It is interesting to read Savile's comments in these lectures on why he felt that mathematics at that time was not flourishing. Students did not understand the importance of the subject, Savile wrote, there were no teachers to explain the difficult points, the texts written by the leading mathematicians of the day were not studied, and no overall approach to the teaching of mathematics had been formulated. Of course, as we shall see below, fifty years later Savile tried to rectify these shortcomings by setting up two chairs at the University of Oxford. *SAU https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-19.html Pic. | ||1549: Henry Savile born ... scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English. It is interesting to read Savile's comments in these lectures on why he felt that mathematics at that time was not flourishing. Students did not understand the importance of the subject, Savile wrote, there were no teachers to explain the difficult points, the texts written by the leading mathematicians of the day were not studied, and no overall approach to the teaching of mathematics had been formulated. Of course, as we shall see below, fifty years later Savile tried to rectify these shortcomings by setting up two chairs at the University of Oxford. *SAU https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-19.html Pic. | ||
File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1602: Scientist, inventor, and politician [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] born. Von Guericke will pioneer the physics of vacuums, and discover an experimental method for demonstrating electrostatic repulsion. | |||
||1603: William Gilbert dies ... physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book ''De Magnete'' (1600), and is credited as one of the originators of the term "electricity". Pic. | ||1603: William Gilbert dies ... physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book ''De Magnete'' (1600), and is credited as one of the originators of the term "electricity". Pic. | ||
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||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. No DOB, No DOD. Pic: document. | ||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. No DOB, No DOD. Pic: document. | ||
||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||
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||1761: John Dollond dies ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||1761: John Dollond dies ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||
||1765: George Glas dies ... merchant and explorer. No DOB. Pic search book cover | ||1765: George Glas dies ... merchant and explorer. No DOB. Pic search book cover. | ||
||1768: Jędrzej Śniadecki born ... writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry. Pic. | ||1768: Jędrzej Śniadecki born ... writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry. Pic. | ||
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File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Reflecting circle. Pic. | ||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Reflecting circle. Pic. | ||
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File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | ||
||1836: Pierre-Simon Girard dies ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic. | |||
||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. Pic. | ||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||1936: In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. | ||1936: In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. | ||
||1937: Praveen Chaudhari born ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||1937: Praveen Chaudhari born ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | ||
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||2011: Robert "Bob" Osserman dies ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||2011: Robert "Bob" Osserman dies ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||
||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search | ||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search. | ||
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3340 B.C.: The Solar eclipse of 3340 B.C. occurs. Geometric designs on a stone in Ireland may depict the eclipse; if so, the stone is the earliest known record of an eclipse.
1602: Scientist, inventor, and politician Otto von Guericke born. Von Guericke will pioneer the physics of vacuums, and discover an experimental method for demonstrating electrostatic repulsion.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.