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||1570 – The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps.
||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps.


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.


||1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)


||1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)


||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.


||1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.


||1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.


||Josip Plemelj (d. May 22, 1967) was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.
||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.


||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801). Pic.
||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801). Pic.
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||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html


||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)

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  • 1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

    1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

    1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

  • 2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

    2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

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