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||1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||
File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer. | File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer. | ||
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File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1841: George Green dies ... mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). | ||1841: George Green dies ... mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists | ||
||1852: Julius Richard Petri born ... microbiologist, invented the Petri dish. | ||1852: Julius Richard Petri born ... microbiologist, invented the Petri dish. | ||
||1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time. | ||1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time. | ||
File:Pascaline.jpg|link=Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|1860: First known use of [[Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|Pascal's calculator]] in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel]] experiments. | |||
||1889: Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. | ||1889: Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. | ||
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1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: First known use of Pascal's calculator in time travel experiments.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.