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File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. | File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. | ||
||1667: Godefroy Wendelin dies ... astronomer and author. He is credited with recognizing that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter. Pic. | |||
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1676: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz. | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1676: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz. | ||
||1851: William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. | ||1851: William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. Pic. | ||
||1804: Wilhelm Eduard Weber born ... physicist and academic. | ||1804: Wilhelm Eduard Weber born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1821: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel born. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||1821: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel born. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||
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||1853: Heinrich Maschke born ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic. | ||1853: Heinrich Maschke born ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic. | ||
||1854: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom born ... chemist and academic. | ||1854: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1861: The first transcontinental [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph line]] across the United States is completed. | File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1861: The first transcontinental [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph line]] across the United States is completed. | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals "at least five hundred and twelve megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.