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|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | |File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | ||
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1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
1967: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.