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||1998: Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission. | ||1998: Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission. | ||
||2004: Isao Imai dies ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. | ||2004: Isao Imai dies ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. Pic. | ||
||2007: Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. | ||2007: Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. | ||
||2011: John McCarthy dies ... computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language. | ||2011: John McCarthy dies ... computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language. Pic. | ||
||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. | ||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals "at least five hundred and twelve megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.