...over at The Voltage Gate (who's partying like it's 1779). Yours truly has a post there, but you should check out all of the scientific goodness.
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1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician
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1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist
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1561 - Birth of Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher