1903 Birthday G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist, Treatise on Limnology 1856 Death David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73 1831 Birthday James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist, Treatise on Electricity 1783 Birthday David Cox, English painter, Treatise on landscape painting 1742 Event Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist 1711 Birthday David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
