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File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | ||
||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic. | ||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic. | ||
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File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film. | File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film. | ||
||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic. | ||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''. Pic. | ||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''. Pic. | ||
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1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.