Leonardo Pisano, the Italian mathematician who is widely accredited for his work surrounding the Fibonacci sequence, was born
1202
Leonardo Pisano publishes Liber Abaci, also known as the “Book of Calculus” or the “Book of the Abacus”
1487
Leonardo Da Vinci implemented the “Divine Proportion” in his artwork, namely the Vitruvian Man and the Last Supper, and exploration of its relationship to the human body and common societal beauty standards.
The Royal Mines Act of England was passed which repealed the Act Against Multipliers passed during Henry IV’s rule
Robert Simson of the University of Glasgow noted that the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence had a consistently increasing magnitude, 1.618033988749894..., or (1 +√5)/2, which is what is commonly known as the infinite and never-repeating “Golden Number.”
Antoine Lavoisier publishes Traité élémentaire de chimie and explains his definition of elements: “substances that chemical analyses had failed to break down into simpler entities”
Antoine Lavoisier was guillotined for tax fraud
Rutherford publishes Collisions IV that made claims of his success as an alchemist and ability to split the atom.
