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||602: Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself. | ||602: Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself. | ||
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity. | ||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley | ||
||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. | ||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer. | ||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer. | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
