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||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock. Pic. | ||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock. Pic. | ||
||1814: Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies ... philosopher and academic. Pic. | |||
||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic. | ||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic. | ||
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||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic. | ||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic. | ||
||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing. | ||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing. Pic (wing). | ||
||1924: Johannes Frischauf dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist. | ||1924: Johannes Frischauf dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist. | ||
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.