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File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1550: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1550: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | ||
||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. No DOB. Pic: coat of arms. | ||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. No DOB. Pic: coat of arms. | ||
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File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1972: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] dies. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive. | File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1972: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] dies. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive. | ||
||1996: Jack Hamm dies ... cartoonist and television host. Pic search | ||1996: Jack Hamm dies ... cartoonist and television host. Pic search. | ||
||2000: Herman Feshbach dies ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search | ||2000: Herman Feshbach dies ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. Pic search. | ||
||2003: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | ||2003: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | ||
||2014: John Robert Beyster dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||2014: John Robert Beyster dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]]. | File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]]. | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1693: Astronomer Elisabeth Hevelius dies. One of the first female astronomers, Hevelius is known as "the mother of moon charts".
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by William Blake's monster ends in riot, leading to the release of more than fifty thousand fleas from the Human Flea Circus.
1972: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean dies. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.