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File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
||1869: John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset born ... lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. No DOD. No pic online.


||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

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  • 1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

    1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

  • 1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

    1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

  • 1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

    1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

  • 1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

    2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

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