Tobias Mayer, who corresponded with Euler about the longitude problem, died in Gottingen, Germany. More information about: Tobias Mayer Leonhard […]

J. J. Sylvester began his duties at the newly founded Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. More information about: James

Newton’s first publication appeared as a letter in the Philosophical Transactions. It dealt with his new theory of light, showing

Osiander wrote of Michael Stifel: “He has devised new numbers for the alphabet, namely the triangular numbers, and his fantasies

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born in Torun, Poland. In his De revolutionibus, he would place the sun at the center at