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||1790: Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone. | ||1790: Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone. | ||
||1797: Joseph Henry born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1797: Joseph Henry born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1804 One of the earliest science board games released. An astronomical board game, folded into cardboard slip case, entitled 'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy; A New & Instructive Pastime. Revised & approved by Mrs. Bryan; Blackheath', 'Published, December 17th 1804, by the Proprietor, John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, London The game is based on the traditional Game of the Goose, which was adapted to a wide range of themed boards, many produced by John Wallis, one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. Pic: https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-17.html | ||1804 One of the earliest science board games released. An astronomical board game, folded into cardboard slip case, entitled 'Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy; A New & Instructive Pastime. Revised & approved by Mrs. Bryan; Blackheath', 'Published, December 17th 1804, by the Proprietor, John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, London The game is based on the traditional Game of the Goose, which was adapted to a wide range of themed boards, many produced by John Wallis, one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. Pic: https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-17.html | ||
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||1940: Alicia Boole Stott dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1940: Alicia Boole Stott dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1947: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted dies ... chemist and academic. He introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions in 1923, simultaneously with Thomas Martin Lowry. Pic. | |||
||1957: The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. | ||1957: The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. | ||
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498 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.
1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.
1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1963: Physicist and crime-fighter Nathan Rosen discovers a new form of Einstein–Rosen bridge which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
2016: Green Ring 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.