Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 29

May 29
 * 1660 - Death of Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
 * 1675 - Birth of Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
 * 1716 - Birth of Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
 * 1829 – Death of Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
 * 1896 - Death of Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
 * 1919 - Arthur Eddington takes measurements of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse in an attempt to test Einstein's theory of relativity.
 * 1972 - Death of Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American mechanical engineer (b. 1878)