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||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html | ||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html | ||
||1739: | File:Eustachio_Manfredi.jpg|link=Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet [[Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|Eustachio Manfredi]] dies. | ||
||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fran%C3%A7ois+Dominique+S%C3%A9raphin | ||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fran%C3%A7ois+Dominique+S%C3%A9raphin |
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.