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||1520: More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath | ||1520: More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath | ||
||1731: Benjamin Banneker born ... almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Pic. | |||
||1803: Georges-Louis Le Sage dies ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. | ||1803: Georges-Louis Le Sage dies ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. | ||
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1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.