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|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations. | |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations. | ||
||1599: Pedro da Fonseca dies ... Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle. | ||1599: Pedro da Fonseca dies ... Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle. No DOB. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine. | ||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine. Pic. | ||
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. | File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. | ||
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||1744: Johann III Bernoulli born ... grandson of Johann Bernoulli, and son of Johann II Bernoulli. He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic. | ||1744: Johann III Bernoulli born ... grandson of Johann Bernoulli, and son of Johann II Bernoulli. He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic. | ||
||1765: Pierre-Simon Girard born ... mathematician and engineer. | ||1765: Pierre-Simon Girard born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic. | ||
File:Jesse Ramsden. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1790, after R. Home.jpg|link=Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|1775: Mathematician, scientific instrument maker, and [[APTO]] forensics engineer [[Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|Jesse Ramsden]] demonstrates his latest invention, a dividing engine which uses exceptionally high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths to detect and locate the alleged marine cryptid and supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | File:Jesse Ramsden. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1790, after R. Home.jpg|link=Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|1775: Mathematician, scientific instrument maker, and [[APTO]] forensics engineer [[Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|Jesse Ramsden]] demonstrates his latest invention, a dividing engine which uses exceptionally high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths to detect and locate the alleged marine cryptid and supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | ||
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1775: Mathematician, scientific instrument maker, and APTO forensics engineer Jesse Ramsden demonstrates his latest invention, a dividing engine which uses exceptionally high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths to detect and locate the alleged marine cryptid and supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
1975: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on set after eating too many rotifers.
2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.
2017: Fire Dance voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.