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|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].


||1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
||1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF[clarification needed] (23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist, best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment.


||1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
||1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

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  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

  • 1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

    1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

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