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||1852: Pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel dies. He laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. Fröbel created the concept of the "kindergarten" and coined the word; he also developed the educational toys known as Froebel gifts. Pic. | ||1852: Pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel dies. He laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. Fröbel created the concept of the "kindergarten" and coined the word; he also developed the educational toys known as Froebel gifts. Pic. | ||
||1857: Louis Jacques Thénard dies ... chemist. | ||1857: Louis Jacques Thénard dies ... chemist. Pic. | ||
||1863: Max Wolf born ... astronomer and academic ... pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death. Pic. | ||1863: Max Wolf born ... astronomer and academic ... pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death. Pic. | ||
||1870: Clara Immerwahr born ... chemist and academic. | ||1870: Clara Immerwahr born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1870: Anthony Michell born ... engineer. | ||1870: Anthony Michell born ... engineer. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.