Bonaventura Cavalieri, an Italian mathematician and a member of the Jesuate order, died on Nov. 30. 1647; he was born sometime in 1598, making him ...

John Ray, an English naturalist and cleric, was born Nov. 29, 1627.  Seven years ago, we wrote our first post on Ray, in which we credited Ray ...

On Nov. 28, 1660, a small group of natural philosophers, a dozen or so, met at Gresham College in London, and decided to establish a society...

Philip Reinagle, an English landscape painter, died Nov. 27, 1833, at age 84; his date of birth is not known. Reinagle painted hunting scenes ...

Raymond Dart, an Australian/South African anatomist and anthropologist, died Nov. 22, 1988, at the age of 95.   Dart was born near Brisbane in ...

Jacques de Vaucanson, a French inventor, died Nov. 21, 1782, at age 73.  Vaucanson was educated by Jesuits and for a while was a novice in the ...

Carl Akeley, an American taxidermist, sculptor, and animal collector, died Nov. 17, 1926, at age 62.  Akeley trained at Ward's Natural Science ...

Willem de Sitter, a Dutch mathematician and astronomer, died Nov. 20, 1934, at age 62.  De Sitter was educated at the University of Groningen, and ...

Erasmus Francisci, a German encyclopedist, was born Nov. 16, 1627, in Lübeck.  He studied law, like his father, and worked for a while as a ...

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, an American geologist usually referred to as T.C. Chamberlin, died Nov. 15, 1928, at age 85.

Frederick Banting, a Canadian physiologist, was born Nov. 14, 1891. In the fall of 1920, Banting, who was then at the University of Western Ontario...

Pehr Högström, a Swedish clergyman, traveler, missionary, and linguist, was born Nov. 10, 1714, in what looks to be central Sweden, but is called ...