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File:Antonio Manetti.jpg|link=Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|1488: Mathematician, architect, and [[APTO]] theological liason [[Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|Antonio Manetti]] publishes new study of Dante's ''Inferno'' which anticipates later developments in [[high-energy literature]]. | |||
||1555: Gemma Frisius dies ... physician, mathematician, and cartographer. Pic. | ||1555: Gemma Frisius dies ... physician, mathematician, and cartographer. Pic. |
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1488: Mathematician, architect, and APTO theological liason Antonio Manetti publishes new study of Dante's Inferno which anticipates later developments in high-energy literature.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.