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||1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692) | ||1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692) | ||
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1771: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | |||
||1784 – Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753) | ||1784 – Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753) | ||
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1771: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
1872: The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.
1871: New class of crimes against mathematical constants exploits uncertainty about the fate of Mary Celeste.
1901: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg born. He will introduce the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
1923: Photograph says it captured moment of Evil bit release.
1932: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1964: Color commentators announce formation of Color Commentator's Union.
1966: George Plimpton embeds himself within Color Commentator's Union as participatory journalist.