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||1742: Edmond Halley dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.
||1742: Edmond Halley dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.


||1755: Paolo Mascagni born ... physician and anatomist.
||1755: Paolo Mascagni born ... physician and anatomist. Pic.


File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel.


||1794: François-Vincent Raspail born ... chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer.
||1794: François-Vincent Raspail born ... chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer. Pic.


||1812: William Shanks born ... amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places, accomplished in 1873, which, however, was only correct up to the first 527 places. This error was highlighted in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Shanks+pi
||1812: William Shanks born ... amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places, accomplished in 1873, which, however, was only correct up to the first 527 places. This error was highlighted in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Shanks+pi

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