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||1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522) | ||1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522) | ||
||1675 | File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfition)|calculus]]. | ||
||1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754) | ||1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754) | ||
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.