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||1664: Maria Cunitz dies ... astronomer, and one of the most notable female astronomers of the modern era. She authored a book ''Urania propitia'', in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a more elegant solution to Kepler's problem. Pic. | ||1664: Maria Cunitz dies ... astronomer, and one of the most notable female astronomers of the modern era. She authored a book ''Urania propitia'', in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a more elegant solution to Kepler's problem. Pic. | ||
||1751: Andrew Gordon dies ... Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor. He made the first electric motor. Pic: https://www.beatson.co.uk/history-electric-motors/ | |||
||1752: William Whiston dies ... mathematician, historian, and theologian. | ||1752: William Whiston dies ... mathematician, historian, and theologian. | ||
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1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.