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||1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||
| | File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer. | ||
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | ||
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1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.