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||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated ''Encyclopedie''. Pic. | ||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated ''Encyclopedie''. Pic. | ||
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." | File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic. | ||
||1806: Michel Adanson dies ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. Pic. | ||1806: Michel Adanson dies ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. Pic. | ||
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File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | ||
||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist born ... chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. | ||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist born ... chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+gottlieb | ||
||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic. | ||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic. | ||
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1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.
1916: Well-known illustration The Eel Time-Surfing 2 is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1943: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 "feels more green than ever," according to new chromatographic analysis.