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||1459: Martin Behaim born ... navigator and geographer, best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest surviving globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492. Pic. | |||
||1536: Printer William Tyndale executed. No DOB. Pic. | |||
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1570: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension. | |||
||1723: Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. Pic. | |||
||1732: The Rev. Dr. Nevil Maskelyne astronomer He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. Pic. | |||
||1735: Jesse Ramsden born ... mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey. Pic. | |||
File:Jesse Ramsden. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1790, after R. Home.jpg|link=Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|1735: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker [[Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|Jesse Ramsden]] born. He will build his reputation on his engraving and design of dividing engines, which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. Ramsden will produce instruments for astronomy that will be especially well-known for maritime use (needed for the measurement of latitudes), and for his surveying instruments (widely used for cartography and land survey). | |||
File:Charles Dupin.jpg|link=Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician [[Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|Charles Dupin]] born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map. | |||
||1795: Olinde Rodrigues born ... banker, mathematician, and social reformer. Pic. | |||
||1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove born ... physicist and meteorologist. Pic. | |||
File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers. | |||
||1840: Ferdinand François Désiré Budan de Boislaurent dies ... amateur mathematician, best known for a tract, Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques, first published in Paris in 1807, but based on work from 1803. Pic (book cover). | |||
||1846: George Westinghouse born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Pic. | |||
||1855: Mathematician and publisher August Leopold Crelle dies. He was the founder of ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (also known as ''Crelle's Journal''). He befriended Niels Henrik Abel and published seven of Abel's papers in the first volume of his journal. Pic. | |||
File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | |||
File:Benjamin Peirce.jpg|link=Benjamin Peirce (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician [[Benjamin Peirce (nonfiction)|Benjamin Peirce]] dies. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he became known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions". | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1889: American inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] shows his first motion picture. | |||
||1893: Meghnad Saha born ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic. Pic. | |||
||1897: Florence B. Seibert born ... biochemist and academic ... will identify the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently isolate a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test. Pic. | |||
||1903: Ernest Walton born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1908: Sergei Sobolev born ... mathematician and academic. TO_DO in play. | |||
||1912: Walter William Skeat dies ... pre-eminent philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. Pic. | |||
||1918: Abraham Robinson born ... mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson's papers were in applied mathematics rather than in pure mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1921: Evgenii Landis born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | |||
||1924: Bruce Irons born ... engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C. Taig, the isoparametric element concept. Pic. | |||
||1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1959: Balthasar van der Pol dies ... physicist. Pic. | |||
||1968: Phyllis Nicolson dies ... mathematician and physicist ... most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank. Pic. | |||
||1986: Alexander Kronrod dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | |||
||1995: 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. | |||
||2007: Robert W. Bussard dies ... physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. Bussard ramjet. Pic search. | |||
||2007: Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. (Born 13 September 1967; alive March 2020.) Pic. | |||
||2007: Asteroid 2008 TC3 discovered ... an 80-metric-ton (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10.5 kilograms (23.1 lb), were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor. Pic. | |||
||2013: Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen dies ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:17, 7 February 2022
1570: Gerolamo Cardano imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.
1735: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden born. He will build his reputation on his engraving and design of dividing engines, which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. Ramsden will produce instruments for astronomy that will be especially well-known for maritime use (needed for the measurement of latitudes), and for his surveying instruments (widely used for cartography and land survey).
1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1880: Mathematician Benjamin Peirce dies. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he became known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions".
1889: American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.