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||1474 – Ali Qushji, Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1403) | ||1474 – Ali Qushji, Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1403) | ||
||Erhard Weigel (b. December 16, 1625) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He will work to make science more widely accessible to the public. Pic. | |||
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. | File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.