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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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1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1580: Astronomer and mathematician 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%.
1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.
1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.
1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."
2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.