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||1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies ... magician, astrologer, and theologian. Pic. | ||1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies ... magician, astrologer, and theologian. Pic. | ||
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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | ||
||1769: | ||1769: Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic. | ||
||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Brinkley+(astronomer) | ||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Brinkley+(astronomer) | ||
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1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.
1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
2009: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Pilgrim declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.