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||1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712) | ||1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712) | ||
||Maria Cunitz (d. August 22, 1664) was an accomplished German astronomer, and one of the most notable female astronomers of the modern era. She authored a book ''Urania propitia'', in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a more elegant solution to Kepler's problem. Pic. | |||
||1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667) | ||1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667) | ||
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1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.
1975: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.