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16 Feb 1514
Georg Joachim Rheticus |
birth Georg Joachim Rheticus Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker (died 1574) |
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16 Feb 1531
Johannes Stöffler |
death Johannes Stöffler Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (born 1452) |
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16 Feb 1662
John Evelyn |
John Evelyn (botany) John Evelyn presents the basic text of his Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber to the College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning, probably the earliest treatise on forestry (it is published in book form in 1664). |
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16 Feb 1698
Pierre Bouguer |
birth Pierre Bouguer Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (died 1758) |
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16 Feb 1759
Bartholomew Mosse |
death Bartholomew Mosse Bartholomew Mosse, Irish surgeon (born 1712) |
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16 Feb 1822
Francis Galton |
birth Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (died 1911) |
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16 Feb 1824
Peter Kozler |
birth Peter Kozler Peter Kozler (died 1879), cartographer, geographer. |
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16 Feb 1834
Ernst Haeckel |
birth Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel (died 1919), zoologist. |
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16 Feb 1834
Lionel Lukin |
death Lionel Lukin Lionel Lukin (born 1742), English inventor. |
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16 Feb 1837
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus |
death Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (born 1776), German naturalist and advocate of transmutation. |
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16 Feb 1902
Zhang Yuzhe |
birth Zhang Yuzhe Zhang Yuzhe (died 1986), Chinese astronomer. |
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16 Feb 1953
Pakistan Academy of Sciences |
Pakistan Academy of Sciences The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established. |
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16 Feb 1978
bulletin board system |
bulletin board system (computer science) The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). |
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