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File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1477: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci]] accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1477: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci]] accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | ||
||1527: Abraham Ortelius born ... cartographer and geographer. | ||1527: Abraham Ortelius born ... cartographer and geographer. Pic. | ||
||1561: A Celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle. | ||1561: A Celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle. | ||
||1572: Adam Tanner born ... mathematician, philosopher, and academic. | ||1572: Adam Tanner born ... Jesuit, mathematician, philosopher, and academic. No pic online. | ||
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] born. He will be a leading scientist of his time. | File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] born. He will be a leading scientist of his time. | ||
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File:Sistine Chapel.jpg|link=Flooding the Sistine Chapel|1659: Proposals to [[Flooding the Sistine Chapel|flood the Sistine chapel]] "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII. | File:Sistine Chapel.jpg|link=Flooding the Sistine Chapel|1659: Proposals to [[Flooding the Sistine Chapel|flood the Sistine chapel]] "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII. | ||
||1678: Abraham Darby I born ... iron master. | ||1678: Abraham Darby I born ... iron master. No pic. | ||
||1792: Maximilian Hell dies ... astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. | ||1792: Maximilian Hell dies ... astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. | ||
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||1958: The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours. | ||1958: The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours. | ||
||1964: Tatyana Afanasyeva dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1964: Tatyana Afanasyeva dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1964: Rachel Carson dies ... biologist and author. | ||1964: Rachel Carson dies ... biologist and author. Pic. | ||
||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||
||2000: Phil Katz dies ... computer programmer, co-created the zip file format. | ||2000: Phil Katz dies ... computer programmer, co-created the zip file format. Pic. | ||
||2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%. | ||2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%. | ||
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||2004: Robin John Popplestone dies ... pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II. Pic. | ||2004: Robin John Popplestone dies ... pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II. Pic. | ||
||2005: Saunders Mac Lane dies ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. | ||2005: Saunders Mac Lane dies ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Pic. | ||
||2007: Frank Henry Westheimer dies ... chemist. He did pioneering work in physical organic chemistry, applying techniques from physical to organic chemistry and integrating the two fields. He explored the mechanisms of chemical and enzymatic reactions, and made fundamental theoretical advances. Pic. | |||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | ||
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1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.
1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.
1890: Physicist and APTO field engineer Johannes Bosscha Jr. publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
2018: Golden Spiral is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.