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February 1st

1650 Descartes contracted a chill while tutoring Queen Christina of Sweden, which developed into inflammation of the lungs. Ten days later he died at age 53.

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Rene Descartes
1673 Leibniz, during his first visit to London, exhibited his calculating machine to the Royal Society.

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Gottfried Leibniz
1903 George Stokes, who did important work in hydrodynamics and became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, died in Cambridge, England, on this day.

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George Stokes

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