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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. | ||
||1605: The first edition of ''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'' (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. | ||1605: The first edition of ''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'' (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. Pic. | ||
File:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1622: First known literary reference to the illustration ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon''). | File:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1622: First known literary reference to the illustration ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's ''Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon''). | ||
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||1922: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard dies ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic. | ||1922: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard dies ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic. | ||
||1936: Oskar Barnack dies ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. | ||1936: Oskar Barnack dies ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. Pic. | ||
||1938: Frederick Rowbottom born ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/ | ||1938: Frederick Rowbottom born ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/ | ||
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||1969: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. | ||1969: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. | ||
||1970: Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. | File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1970: [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|Buckminster Fuller]] receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. | ||
||1998: Francis Harry Hinsley dies ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic. | ||1998: Francis Harry Hinsley dies ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic. | ||
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1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy 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.
1541: Writer, humanist, and historian 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.
1547: 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.
1622: First known literary reference to the illustration Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon).
1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.
1966: Reverse engineering of Cryptographic numen unexpectedly reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1967: Mathematician, computer scientist, and stand-up comic Tom Kilburn publishes new theory of Cryptographic numina which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1970: Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
