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||1207: Oldest recorded solar eclipse identified ... mentioned in the Bible. Using a combination of the biblical text and an ancient Egyptian text, researchers were able to refine the dates of the Egyptian pharaohs, in particular the dates of the reign of Ramesses the Great. https://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-identified-2556386 | ||1207: Oldest recorded solar eclipse identified ... mentioned in the Bible. Using a combination of the biblical text and an ancient Egyptian text, researchers were able to refine the dates of the Egyptian pharaohs, in particular the dates of the reign of Ramesses the Great. https://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-identified-2556386 | ||
File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%. | File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%. | ||
||1632: Christopher Wren born ... physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral. Pic. | ||1632: Christopher Wren born ... physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral. Pic. | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Green Blossom used in high-energy literature experiment develops artificial intelligence, demands copyright autonomy.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.