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Friday, January 16, 2026
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Two jaws of Thecodontosaurus and drawings of teeth, detail of a lithographed plate in “A description of various fossil remains of three distinct saurian animals, recently discovered in the Magnesian Conglomerate near Bristol," by Henry Riley and Samuel Stutchbury, Transactions of the Geological Society of London, plate 29, end of vol. 5, ser. 2, 1840. (Linda Hall Library)
Samuel Stutchbury, an English naturalist and museum curator, was born Jan 15, 1798. Stutchbury is the pioneer dinosaur hunter of whom no one has...
Maria Merian, a German/Dutch artist and naturalist, died Jan. 13, 1716, at age 69.
Lazzaro Spallanzani, an Italian biologist, geologist, and priest, was born on Jan. 12, 1729, in Scandiano in north-central Italy, near Regio Emilia...
Peter Schoeffer, a German printer, was born around 1425 and died in 1503. He worked mainly in Mainz, and he began his printing career as an...
Harry Govier Seeley, an English paleontologist, died Jan. 8, 1909, at the age of 69. He was born in 1839, 15 years after William Buckland announced...
Thomas Coltrin Keefer, a Canadian civil engineer, died Jan. 7, 1915, at the age of 93. He was raised in northern Ontario, what they called back...
Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, an Italian adventurer, died Jan. 6, 1855, at age 75. Born in Bergamo, Italy, he prospered as a magistrate during the...
Umberto Eco, an Italian historian, semiotician, and novelist, was born Jan. 5, 1932. Eco was a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna...
Robert Boyle, an Irish/English experimental natural philosopher and chemist, died in London on Dec. 30, 1691, at the age of 64. Boyle is well known...
Charles Goodyear, an American self-taught chemist and inventor, was born Dec. 29, 1800, in New Haven, Conn.
John Westwyk, an English monk and astronomical instrument maker, died sometime before 1400, probably in the infirmary at the Benedictine abbey...
On Dec. 22, 1666, the French Académie des Sciences met for the first time in King Louis XIV's library at Versailles.
Ptolemy of Alexandria, sometimes referred to as Claudius Ptolemy, was the most accomplished and most influential astronomer of the ancient world...
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