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|File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1494: ''[[Brainiac Explains]]'' lecture series denounces [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] as "irrational." | |File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1494: ''[[Brainiac Explains]]'' lecture series denounces [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] as "irrational." | ||
|| | ||Ambroise Paré (d. 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist and invented several surgical instruments. He was also part of the Parisian Barber Surgeon guild. Pic. No birth date. | ||
||1641 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724) | ||1641 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724) | ||
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1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1757: Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punched-card technology to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1922: Hilbert curve prevents crime against mathematical constants.
1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.