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File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge. | ||
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] born. He will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures. | |||
||1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law. | ||1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law. |
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1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. He will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.