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File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] publishes updated edition of ''Cours de mathématiques'' with new section on the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] publishes updated edition of ''Cours de mathématiques'' with new section on the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||William Allen Whitworth (b. 1 February 1840) was an English mathematician and a priest in the Church of England. | |||
|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1842: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | |File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1842: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
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1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced 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.