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File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


||1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
||1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)

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  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

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