Events
1684 - Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
Births
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher
1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist
1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist
1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist
Humanities & Social Science
