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| | * [[Timeline: Early (nonfiction)]]: Earliest - 1699 AD |
| File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452 Dec. 10: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born.
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| File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1462 Feb. 1: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
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| File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1555 Aug. 8: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]].
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| File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=|1581 Oct. 9: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
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| File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583 Feb. 23: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born.
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| File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600 Feb. 17: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake.
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| File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600 Feb. 19: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
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| File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=|1638 Feb. 26: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
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| File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656 Nov. 6: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies.
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| File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1667 Apr. 29: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
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| File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697 Nov. 10: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
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| File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732 Oct 29: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
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| File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735 Feb. 27: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
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| File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764 Oct. 26: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
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| File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1777 Apr. 30: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
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| File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1788 Feb 20: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
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| File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1788 Feb. 21: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
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| File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1804: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
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| File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815 Dec. 10: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born.
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| File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851 Feb. 18: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
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| File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1853 Sept 21: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
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| File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855 Feb 23: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
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| File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856 Jul. 10: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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| File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873 Aug. 8: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
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| File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882 Mar. 23: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
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| File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=|1891 Feb. 17: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]].
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| File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1893 Mar. 1: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
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| File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1898 Mar. 3: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He will also contribute to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
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| File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903 Feb. 1: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
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| File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1904 Apr. 22: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
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| File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911 Apr. 8: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity.
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| File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
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| File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926 Feb. 21: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for (in the words of the committee) "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
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| File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|1932 Jan. 5: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
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| File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|1933 Feb 22: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
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| File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935 April 14: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
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| File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940 Feb. 27: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
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| File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943 Jan. 7: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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| File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943 Mar. 9: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born. He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
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| File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1962 Dec. 20: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
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| File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=|1965 Oct. 15: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]].
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| File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967 Feb. 18: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
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| File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976 Feb. 1: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
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| File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1986 Feb 20: The Soviet Union launches its [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]]. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
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| File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987 Feb 22: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
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| File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995 Feb. 22: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
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| File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001 March 23: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
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| File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005 Feb. 26: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
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| File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008 Mar. 4: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies.
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| File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011 Mar. 23: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
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| File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|2012 Feb. 17: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
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| File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2016 Feb. 9: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
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