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||1781: Alexander Berry born ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. | ||1781: Alexander Berry born ... surgeon, merchant, and explorer. | ||
File: | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
File: | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1829: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Pic. Reflecting circle. | ||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Pic. Reflecting circle. | ||
Revision as of 18:29, 30 November 2018
3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1985: Ridley Scott revisits his documentary film Alien, tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version.
