Births
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate
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Events
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
Births
Anatomical engraving from Henry Gray's Anatomy, 1858.
Moving on to Chapter 1 in my ongoing pedantic plodding through Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success