Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 25

March 25:

• 1539 - Birth of Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)

• 1561 - Death of Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)

• 1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens

• 1712 - Death of Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)

• 1800 - Birth of Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)

• 1818 - Death of Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)

• 1946 - Birth of Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)

• 1952 - Birth of Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician