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||1529 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581) | ||1529 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581) | ||
File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. | |||
||1715 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787) | ||1715 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787) |
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1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.