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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician | ||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search other sketches by: https://www.google.com/search?q=gaspar+schott | ||
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850) | ||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850) |
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.