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File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces. | File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces. | ||
||Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (b. 23 December 1722) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751[1] as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic. | |||
||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792) | ||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792) | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.