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File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1652: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | ||
||1676: Anthony Collins born ... philosopher and author. | ||1676: Anthony Collins born ... philosopher and author. Pic. | ||
||1706: John Dollond born ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||1706: John Dollond born ... optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||
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||1872: Onorato Nicoletti born ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. Pic. | ||1872: Onorato Nicoletti born ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1874: Anders Jonas Ångström dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1874: Anders Jonas Ångström dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1876: Willem Hendrik Keesom born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.