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||1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843) | ||1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843) | ||
||Alexander Wilson FRSE (d. 16 October 1786) was a Scottish surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations. | |||
||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) | ||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for six million dollars.