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||2016: Alexander Gorlov dies ... mechanical engineer. Hydro turbine. Pic. | |||
File:Purple Racer.jpg|link=Purple Racer (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Purple Racer (nonfiction)|Purple Racer]]'' reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of [[Violet (nonfiction)|violet]]. | File:Purple Racer.jpg|link=Purple Racer (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Purple Racer (nonfiction)|Purple Racer]]'' reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of [[Violet (nonfiction)|violet]]. | ||
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940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1278: Mathematician Yang Hui uses his famous Triangle to defeat the Forbidden ratio in single combat.
1793: French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1972: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Purple Racer reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of violet.