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||1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744)
||1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744)


File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1705: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College.  
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||1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
||1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)

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  • April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

    April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

  • 1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. His works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

    1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. His works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

  • 1705: Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College.

    1705: Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College.

  • 1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

    1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

  • 1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.

    1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.

  • 1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

    1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

  • 1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series explains why Colonel Zersetzung failed to detonate the Tybee Bomb.

    1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series explains why Colonel Zersetzung failed to detonate the Tybee Bomb.

  • 2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

    2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

  • 2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

    2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

  • Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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