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||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816) | ||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816) | ||
||Johann Rudolf Wolf (d. 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. | |||
||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs. | ||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs. | ||
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1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and counteract geometry solvent.
1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
