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File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
||1673 Robert Hooke writes in his journal that he had, "Told the Society of Arithmetick engine.‏*@HookesLondon It is said that Newton had this, and other Hooke items, including Hooke's portrait, removed from the Royal Society after Hooke's death but this does not seem to be supported by most math historians. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html


||1754: Nicolaas Kruik dies ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik.
||1754: Nicolaas Kruik dies ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik.

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