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


||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker.
||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker. Pic.


File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
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||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician. Pic.
||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. Pic.


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|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.  
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|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.  

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