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File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | ||
||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. | ||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||
||1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1851: Silvanus P. Thompson dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. | ||1851: Silvanus P. Thompson dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. His most enduring publication is his 1910 text ''Calculus Made Easy'', which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is in the public domain (and still in print). Pic. | ||
||1854: Hjalmar Mellin born ... mathematician and theorist. He will be known for the Mellin transform. Pic. | ||1854: Hjalmar Mellin born ... mathematician and theorist. He will be known for the Mellin transform. Pic. | ||
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1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1624: Physician, mathematician, and crime-fighter Joseph Solomon Delmedigo publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and banishes demons.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1858: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1865: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Heroic War Illustration of the Year.