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||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. | ||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. | ||
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | |||
||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | ||
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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.
1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for six million dollars.