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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics". | |||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1964: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1964: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram computes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram computes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:39, 22 December 2016
1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
1964: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram computes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2014: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association votes against transdimensional corporation status.
1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)
1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)
1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)