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||1346 – Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
||1346: Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.


||1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)
||1349: Thomas Bradwardine dies ... archbishop, mathematician, and physicist.


||Petrus Ramus (d. 26 August 1572) was an influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
||1572: Petrus Ramus dies ... humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.


||1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.


||1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)
||1723: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek dies ... microscopist and biologist.


||1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)
||1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert born ... mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.


||1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)
||1736: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle born ... mineralogist and geologist.
 
||1740: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon.


File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1743: Chemist and biologist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1743: Chemist and biologist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.


||Stephen Joseph Perry (b. 26 August 1833) was an English Jesuit and astronomer, known as a participant in scientific expeditions. Pic.
||1833: Stephen Joseph Perry born ... Jesuit and astronomer, known as a participant in scientific expeditions. Pic.


||1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791) Johann Franz Encke (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈfʁants ˈɛŋkə]; 23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn.
||1865: Johann Franz Encke dies ... astronomer and academic ... worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn.


||1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946)
||1865: Arthur James Arnot born ... engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station.


||1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961)
||1873: Lee de Forest ... engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube.


||Giuseppe Vitali (b. 26 August 1875) was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.
||1875: Giuseppe Vitali born ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.


||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

Revision as of 17:56, 17 August 2018

  • 1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

    1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

  • 1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

    1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

  • 1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

    1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

  • 1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.

    1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.

  • 2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.

    2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.

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