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||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti born ... philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francesco+Maria+Zanotti | ||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti born ... philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francesco+Maria+Zanotti | ||
||1714: Percivall Pott born ...physician and surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen. Pic. | |||
||1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | ||1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | ||
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||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic. | ||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic. | ||
||1807: Joseph Petzval dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1807: Joseph Petzval dies ... mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. Pic. | ||
||1818: Gustav Adolph Kenngott born ... mineralogist. He was the first to describe enstatite, and the disocverer of a new mineral which he named pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Pic. | ||1818: Gustav Adolph Kenngott born ... mineralogist. He was the first to describe enstatite, and the disocverer of a new mineral which he named pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Pic. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.