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January 11th
| 1672 | Newton presented his telescope to the Royal Society of London. At the same meeting he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
More information about: Isaac Newton |
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| 1775 | Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) presented a memoir before the Academie des Sciences in which he made use of two planes of projection in his descriptive geometry. Descriptive geometry deals with the accurate two dimensional rendering of three dimensional solids. More information about: Gaspard Monge |
| 1787 | Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel discovered the first two moon of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
More information about: Herschel Uranus |
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