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1518: Physician and scientist Li Shizhen born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China.
1777: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau warns that "the Enlightenment itself, built as it is on the certainties of mathematics and logic, now stands in peril from the generation of math criminals now coming of age."
1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1968: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by shelling shares in the upcoming N1 rocket explosion.
1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970: Mathematician, dissident, and crime-fighter Igor Shafarevich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: NASA approves a mission extension for Stardust, sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle unexpectedly reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as ten" previously unknown shades of green.

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 ||1866: Henry Frederick Baker born ... mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. Pic.
-||1879: Alfred Korzybski born ... mathematician, linguist, and philosopher. Pic.
+||1879: Alfred Korzybski born ... mathematician, linguist, and philosopher. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Pic.
 File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.