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||1508: Alessandro Piccolomini born ... astronomer and philosopher.
||1508: Alessandro Piccolomini born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: book cover.


||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker.
||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker.
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File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1580: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1580: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
||1582: Matteo Tafuri dies ... philosopher, astrologer and physician. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Tafuri


File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.
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||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.
||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic.


||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician.
||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1822: Carl Schmidt born ... chemist and academic. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.
||1822: Carl Schmidt born ... chemist and academic. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.

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