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||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
||1721: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius dies ... botanist and physician ... one of the first workers to perform experiments in heredity. He contributed particularly toward establishing sexual differentiation in plants by identifying and defining the male (anther) and female (pistil) reproductive parts of the plant and also by describing their function in fertilization. He showed that pollen is required for this process. Pic.


||1760: Louis Godin dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
||1760: Louis Godin dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle born ... astronomer and cartographer.
||1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic.


||1792: The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
||1792: The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.

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