Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 10

December 10:

• 1198 - Death of Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)

• 1452 - Birth of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)

• 1588 - Birth of Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)

• 1603 - Death of William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)

• 1626 - Death of Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)

• 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

• 1751 - Birth of George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)

• 1804 - Birth of Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)

• 1805 - Birth of Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)

• 1815 - Birth of Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)

• 1831 - Death of Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)

• 1850 - Death of François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)

• 1896 - Death of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)

• 1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)

• 1934 - Birth of Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)

• 1973 - Death of Wolf Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)