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||1588: Theodor Zwinger dies ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic. | ||1588: Theodor Zwinger dies ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic. | ||
File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1604: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] born. Glauber will | File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1604: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] born. Glauber will make pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering. | ||
File:Marcello Malpighi by Carlo Cignani.jpg|link=Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|1628: Physician and biologist [[Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|Marcello Malpighi]] born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy. | File:Marcello Malpighi by Carlo Cignani.jpg|link=Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|1628: Physician and biologist [[Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|Marcello Malpighi]] born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy. | ||
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||1662: Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb dies ... polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. Hartlib is often described as an "intelligencer", and indeed has been called "the Great Intelligencer of Europe". His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. No birth date. Pic: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/catalog.php?num=82 | ||1662: Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb dies ... polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. Hartlib is often described as an "intelligencer", and indeed has been called "the Great Intelligencer of Europe". His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. No birth date. Pic: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/catalog.php?num=82 | ||
File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1670: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] dies. Glauber | File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1670: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] dies. Glauber made pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering, probably at the expense of his health. | ||
||1709: Georg Wilhelm Steller born ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer. No portrait exists. Pic: memorial stone. | ||1709: Georg Wilhelm Steller born ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer. No portrait exists. Pic: memorial stone. | ||
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1262: First known use of Yui's triangle to verify the APTO Accords checksum.
1604: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber born. Glauber will make pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering.
1628: Physician and biologist Marcello Malpighi born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy.
1670: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber dies. Glauber made pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering, probably at the expense of his health.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1923: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch born. Fitch will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
1936: Inventor and crime-fighter Philo Farnsworth invents an early form of all-electronic scrying engine which detects and exposes transdimensional corporations.
1961: Karl Jones born.
1967: Engineer, inventor, and APTO field engineer Charles William Oatley discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use scanning electron microscopy to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arriving at Mars.
2016: Embassy is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.