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||1784: Leopoldo Nobili born ... physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Pic.
||1784: Leopoldo Nobili born ... physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Pic.


||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts".
||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts". Pic.


||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician
||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician
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||1833: Nicéphore Niépce dies ... inventor, created the first known photograph.
||1833: Nicéphore Niépce dies ... inventor, created the first known photograph.
||1859: Charles Cagniard de la Tour dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+cagniard+de+la+tour


||1862: George Nuttall born ... bacteriologist ... parasites.
||1862: George Nuttall born ... bacteriologist ... parasites.

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  • 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).

    1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).

  • 1939: "The Safe-Cracker was not a math crime," says art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

    1939: "The Safe-Cracker was not a math crime," says art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

  • 1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.

    1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.

  • 2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

    2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Pin Man #1 stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by Baron Zersetzung.

    2018: Signed first edition of Pin Man #1 stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by Baron Zersetzung.

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