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21 Mar 1599
Tycho |
Tycho (astronomy) Tycho sends a letter to Longomontanus, in which he reports his revised theory. |
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21 Mar 1699
Erhard Weigel |
death Erhard Weigel Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (born 1625) |
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21 Mar 1762
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille |
death Nicolas Louis de Lacaille Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (born 1713) |
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21 Mar 1768
Joseph Fourier |
birth Joseph Fourier Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (died 1830) |
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21 Mar 1795
Giovanni Arduino |
death Giovanni Arduino Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (born 1714) |
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21 Mar 1859
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (biology) The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issues the charter establishing the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first organization of its kind in the United States and founder of the nation's first zoo. |
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21 Mar 1864
Luke Howard |
death Luke Howard Luke Howard (born 1772), meteorologist and manufacturing chemist. |
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21 Mar 1915
Ambrosius Hubrecht |
death Ambrosius Hubrecht Ambrosius Hubrecht (born 1853), Dutch zoologist. |
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21 Mar 1928
E. Walter Maunder |
death E. Walter Maunder E. Walter Maunder (born 1851), astronomer. |
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