Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)

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Time since the birth of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi (206 y)

  • is 1/200 of Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more
  • is 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more
  • is 1/50 of Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since building of Stonehenge (5,120 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since the earliest writing (5,100 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more
  • is 1/2 of Time since the death of Shakespeare (406 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (209 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since the first iron steamship crossed the English Channel (202 y)...more
  • is 2 x Time since the birth of chemist Rosalind Franklin (104 y)...more
  • is 2.5 x Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more

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