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||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.
||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.
||1762: Jean Calas executed ... merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Roman Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Pic.


||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic.
||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic.

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