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10 Dec 1588
Isaac Beeckman |
birth Isaac Beeckman Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist (died 1637) |
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10 Dec 1626
Edmund Gunter |
death Edmund Gunter Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (born 1581) |
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10 Dec 1631
Hugh Myddelton |
death Hugh Myddelton Sir Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (born c. 1560) |
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10 Dec 1684
Edmond Halley |
Edmond Halley (astronomy) Edmond Halley presents the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (incorporating inverse-square force) from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society in London. |
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10 Dec 1751
George Shaw |
birth George Shaw George Shaw, English naturalist (died 1813) |
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10 Dec 1804
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi |
birth Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, mathematician (died 1851) |
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10 Dec 1815
Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace |
birth Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, English computing pioneer (died 1852) |
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10 Dec 1861
Thomas Southwood Smith |
death Thomas Southwood Smith Thomas Southwood Smith (born 1788), English physician and sanitary reformer. |
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10 Dec 1896
Alfred Nobel |
death Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel (born 1833), inventor. |
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10 Dec 1902
Old Aswan Dam |
Old Aswan Dam (technology) Old Aswan Dam, designed by William Willcocks, completed across the River Nile in Egypt. |
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10 Dec 1911
Joseph Dalton Hooker |
death Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker (born 1817), English botanist. |
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10 Dec 1973
Wolf V. Vishniac |
death Wolf V. Vishniac Wolf V. Vishniac (b. 1922), American microbiologist |
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