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||Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (d. 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. | ||Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (d. 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. | ||
||Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, KCB FRS (b. 17 May 1836), known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. Pic. | |||
||1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player (d. 1900) | ||1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player (d. 1900) | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.