Template:Selected anniversaries/February 1

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  1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

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  1674: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus uses Gnomon algorithm to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1825: Bergamot essential oil gives Charles Grey the strength to carry on against all opposition.

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  1842: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

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  1888: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  1932: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

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  1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.