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||1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg born ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Pic. | ||1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg born ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Pic. | ||
||1743: John Cuthbertson baptized ... instrument maker and inventor. | ||1743: John Cuthbertson baptized ... instrument maker and inventor. Pic: generator. | ||
||1770: Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. | ||1770: Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. | ||
||1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet born ... mathematician and engineer | ||1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1790: | ||1790: William Roy dies ... military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain. Pic: map, plaque. | ||
File:Great Comet of 1819 by Kendall.jpg|link=Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the [[Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|Great Comet of 1819]] (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. | File:Great Comet of 1819 by Kendall.jpg|link=Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the [[Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|Great Comet of 1819]] (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. | ||
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1646: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.
1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1888: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer develops a Gnomon algorithm function based on the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom which unexpectedly reveals imminent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
2016: Signed first edition of Spinning Thistle used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.
2019: The Custodian says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon."