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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Fire Dance reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of red.

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 File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
-||1874: Konstantin Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis. Pic.
+||1874: Konstantin Mereschkowski born ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis. Pic.
 ||1879: Ludwig Otto Hesse dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly on algebraic invariants, and geometry. The Hessian matrix, the Hesse normal form, the Hesse configuration, the Hessian group, Hessian pairs, Hesse's theorem, Hesse pencil, and the Hesse transfer principle are named after him. Pic.