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||Christophe Plantin (d. 1 July 1589) was an influential Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher. Pic.
||1589: Christophe Plantin dies ... Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher. Pic.


File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1646: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1646: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.


||Johann Baptist Homann (d. 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.
||1724: Johann Baptist Homann dies ... geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.


||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (b. 1742) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.  
||1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg born ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.  


||John Cuthbertson (bapt. 1 July 1743) was an English instrument maker and inventor.
||1743: John Cuthbertson baptized ... instrument maker and inventor.


||1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
||1770: Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.


||1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867)
||1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet born ... mathematician and engineer (d. 1867)


||1790: Major-General William Roy dies ... military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain.
||1790: Major-General William Roy dies ... military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain.
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||1840: Robert Stawell Ball born ... astronomer who founded screw theory, the algebra and calculus of pairs of vectors, such as forces and moments and angular and linear velocity, that arise in the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies. Pic.
||1840: Robert Stawell Ball born ... astronomer who founded screw theory, the algebra and calculus of pairs of vectors, such as forces and moments and angular and linear velocity, that arise in the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies. Pic.


||1848L Emil Weyr born ... mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.
||1848: Emil Weyr born ... mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.


||1860: Charles Goodyear dies ... chemist and engineer.
||1860: Charles Goodyear dies ... chemist and engineer.
||1864: Alexander Crichton Mitchell born ... physicist with a special interest in geomagnetics who worked for many years in India as a professor and head of a meteorological observatory before returning to Scotland. He then worked with the Royal Navy to devise a system, known as an anti-submarine indicator loop, for detecting submarines by detecting currents induced in a loop of wire on the sea floor. Pic: http://indicatorloops.com/mitchell.htm


||1872: Louis Blériot born ... pilot and engineer.
||1872: Louis Blériot born ... pilot and engineer.
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File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] develops a [[Gnomon algorithm function]] based on the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom which unexpectedly reveals imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] develops a [[Gnomon algorithm function]] based on the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom which unexpectedly reveals imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
||1890: Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.


||Sir William Henry Flower (d. 1 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. Pic.
||1899: William Henry Flower dies ... surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. Pic.


||1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
||1906: Jean Dieudonné born ... mathematician and academic.


||1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
||1908: SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.


||Dugald Caleb Jackson (d. July 1, 1951) was an American electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".
||Dugald Caleb Jackson (d. July 1, 1951) was an American electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".

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  • 1646: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.

    1646: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.

  • 1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

    1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

  • 1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

    1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

  • 1888: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer develops a Gnomon algorithm function based on the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom which unexpectedly reveals imminent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1888: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer develops a Gnomon algorithm function based on the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom which unexpectedly reveals imminent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2001: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.

    2001: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.

  • 2017: The Custodian says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon."

    2017: The Custodian says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon."

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