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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.

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 File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
-||Pietro Abbati Marescotti (b. 1768) was an Italian mathematician
+||1687: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?
-||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
+||1768: Pietro Abbati Marescotti born ... mathematician.
+||1804: Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
 ||Zerah Colburn (b. September 1, 1804) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.