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10th April
On this day in 1661 Robert Hooke's first paper on capillary action was read to the "Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning". He showed that the narrower the tube, the higher water rose in it.
A year later the Society became the Royal Society.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
A year later the Society became the Royal Society.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.