On this day in 1637, the printing of René Descartes' Discours de la Méthode was completed, including its important appendix on Geometry in which he introduced the Cartesian coordinate system.
Born:
1625: Giovanni Cassini Ⓟ
1745: Caspar Wessel
1858: Charlotte Angas Scott Ⓟ
1860: Alicia Boole Stott Ⓟ
1870: Peter Pinkerton Ⓟ
1896: Eleanor Pairman Ⓟ
1903: Evan James Williams Ⓟ
1905: Hubert Linfoot Ⓟ
1915: José Luis Massera Ⓟ
1923: Gloria Olive Ⓟ
1924: Samuel Karlin Ⓟ
1925: Guri Ivanovich Marchuk Ⓟ
Died:
1882: John Scott Russell Ⓟ
1893: Joel E Hendricks Ⓟ
1935: Alexander von Brill Ⓟ
1943: Mihailo Petrović Ⓟ
1948: Giacomo Albanese Ⓟ
1966: Paddy Kennedy Ⓟ
1988: Roger Lyndon Ⓟ
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