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File:Franz Anton Mesmer.jpg|link=Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|1734: Physician [[Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|Franz Mesmer]] born.  Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.
File:Franz Anton Mesmer.jpg|link=Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|1734: Physician [[Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|Franz Mesmer]] born.  Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.
||1790: Physician and soldier Moses Nichols dies ... American Revolution. Pic search gravestone: https://www.google.com/search?q="Moses+Nichols


||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. He made the first successful measurement of a stellar parallax, though not to the first publication thereof. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Manuel+John+Johnson
||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. He made the first successful measurement of a stellar parallax, though not to the first publication thereof. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Manuel+John+Johnson
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||1848: Otto Lilienthal born ... pilot and engineer. PAGE EXISTS.
||1848: Otto Lilienthal born ... pilot and engineer. PAGE EXISTS.


||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and logician.
||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.


||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.

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  • 1541: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nicolaus Copernicus publishes evidence that the staunchly geocentric House of Malevecchio has committed or financed a series of unsolved crimes against the heliocentric model.

    1541: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nicolaus Copernicus publishes evidence that the staunchly geocentric House of Malevecchio has committed or financed a series of unsolved crimes against the heliocentric model.

  • 1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.

    1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

    1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

  • 1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

    1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

  • 1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

  • 2005: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2005: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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