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||1533: Jacopo Zabarella born ... philosopher and logician. Zabarella's work reflects his teaching in the Aristotelian tradition; he devoted much effort to presenting what he considered to be the true meaning of Aristotle's texts. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacopo+zabarella | ||1533: Jacopo Zabarella born ... philosopher and logician. Zabarella's work reflects his teaching in the Aristotelian tradition; he devoted much effort to presenting what he considered to be the true meaning of Aristotle's texts. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacopo+zabarella | ||
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File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758. | File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1725: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758. | ||
||1787: François Sulpice Beudant born ... mineralogist and | ||1787: François Sulpice Beudant born ... mineralogist, geologist, and academic. He wrote on geology and mining, as well as the physical and chemical properties of minerals, and built up the mineralogical collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle into one of the world's best. Pic. | ||
||1798: Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. | ||1798: Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. | ||
||1792: Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy born ... geologist and mineralogist. | ||1792: Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy born ... geologist and mineralogist. Pic. | ||
||1829: Lester Allen Pelton born ... inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Pic. | ||1829: Lester Allen Pelton born ... inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Pic. | ||
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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2018: Volume one of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer published.