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||1830: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring dies ... physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists. Pic.
||1830: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring dies ... physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists. Pic.
||1838: James Craig Watson born ... astronomer. He discovered 22 asteroids, beginning with 79 Eurynome in 1863. He was a strong believer in the existence of the planet Vulcan, a hypothetical planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, which is now known not to exist Pic.


File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

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