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||1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
||1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
||Joseph Ludwig Raabe (b. 15 May 1801) was a Swiss mathematician.


File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1836: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1836: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.

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  • 1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

    1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

  • 1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.

    1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.

  • 1864: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War.

    1864: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery incorporated into army medical manuals on both sides of the American Civil War.

  • 1888: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

    1888: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

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