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File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1771: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions. | File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1771: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions. | ||
||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist. | ||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist, best known for his discovery of morphine in 1804. Pic. | ||
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. |
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1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1624: Physician, mathematician, and crime-fighter Joseph Solomon Delmedigo publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and banishes demons.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1858: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.