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1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides condemns crimes against mathematical constants.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor DIES. He inventED set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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 File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
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-– Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
-– Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
-– Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
-– Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
-– Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
-– Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
-– Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)