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File:Pedro Mejía.jpg|link=Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|1541: Writer, humanist, and historian [[Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|Pedro Mexía]] publishes ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon'' ("A Miscellany of Several [[Gnomon algorithms]]"), which quickly raises awareness of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] across Europe.
File:Pedro Mejía.jpg|link=Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|1541: Writer, humanist, and historian [[Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|Pedro Mexía]] publishes ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon'' ("A Miscellany of Several [[Gnomon algorithms]]"), which quickly raises awareness of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] across Europe.
File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1548: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] publishes textbook of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals in such applications as detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1547: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1547: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.

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