Template:Selected anniversaries/December 6: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 8: Line 8:
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.


||1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born ... physicist and chemist.
||1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.


File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
Line 14: Line 14:
||1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
||1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.


||1805: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin born ... magician.
||1805: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin born ... magician, the "Father of Modern Conjuring". Pic.


||1815: died: Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils was a French chemist. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.
||1815: died: Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils was a French chemist. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.

Revision as of 07:03, 1 February 2019