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||Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (b. 1779) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics  
||Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (b. 1779) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics  
||Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (b. 1817), also known as Charles Edward, was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome.


||1818 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (d. 1892)
||1818 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (d. 1892)

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  • 1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

    1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

  • 1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

    1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

  • 1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

    1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

  • 1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • 1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

    1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

  • 1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.

    1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.

  • 1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.

    1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.

  • 1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.

    1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.

  • 1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.

    1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.

  • 2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.

    2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.

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