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||1425: Leonardo di Piero Dati (1360 – 16 March 1425) was an Italian friar and humanist. Both Leonardo and Gregorio Dati are attributed authorship of La Sfera ("The Sphere"), an astronomical-geographic poemetto in ottave, written in the second half of the 14th century, and a work much popular in its time. This work in verse gives information about the world, the marinaresche compass and other things, adding observations, notes about travel and designs. Dati's sermons on the feast of St. Francis (October 1416) and the feast of the Circumcision of Jesus (January 1417) advocated respect for papal power and reform within the context of the established order. Pic: book pages, or family crest. | ||1425: Leonardo di Piero Dati (1360 – 16 March 1425) was an Italian friar and humanist. Both Leonardo and Gregorio Dati are attributed authorship of La Sfera ("The Sphere"), an astronomical-geographic poemetto in ottave, written in the second half of the 14th century, and a work much popular in its time. This work in verse gives information about the world, the marinaresche compass and other things, adding observations, notes about travel and designs. Dati's sermons on the feast of St. Francis (October 1416) and the feast of the Circumcision of Jesus (January 1417) advocated respect for papal power and reform within the context of the established order. Pic: book pages, or family crest. | ||
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. | File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". | ||
||1521: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines. | ||1521: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines. | ||
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File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both [[crimes against mathematics]] and [[crimes against physics]]. | File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both [[crimes against mathematics]] and [[crimes against physics]]. | ||
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | ||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1836: Andrew Smith Hallidie born ... engineer and businessman. Pic. | ||1836: Andrew Smith Hallidie born ... engineer and businessman. Pic. | ||
File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. | File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. | ||
||1841: Félix Savart born ... physicist and psychologist. Pic (bust). | ||1841: Félix Savart born ... physicist and psychologist. Pic (bust). | ||
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||1851: Martinus Beijerinck born ... microbiologist and botanist. Pic. | ||1851: Martinus Beijerinck born ... microbiologist and botanist. Pic. | ||
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. | File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | ||
||1912: Siegfried Flügge born ... theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project). Pic. | ||1912: Siegfried Flügge born ... theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project). Pic. | ||
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||1914: John Murray dies ... oceanographer and biologist ... the father of modern oceanography. Pic. | ||1914: John Murray dies ... oceanographer and biologist ... the father of modern oceanography. Pic. | ||
File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. He will | File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. He will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. | ||
||1916: Tsutomu Yamaguchi born ... survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. Pic. | ||1916: Tsutomu Yamaguchi born ... survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. Pic. | ||
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||2013: Jamal Nazrul Islam dies ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||2013: Jamal Nazrul Islam dies ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' unexpectedly reveals "no less than four hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]''. | File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' unexpectedly reveals "no less than four hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]''. | ||
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Revision as of 18:52, 16 March 2020
1520: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Daniel Bernoulli publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both crimes against mathematics and crimes against physics.
1750: Astronomer Caroline Herschel born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1751: Physicist and crime-fighter Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1838: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1859: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1915: Mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira born. He will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
1966: After-effects of 1966 Palomares B-52 crash reveal new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Do Not Tease Monster unexpectedly reveals "no less than four hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.