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1643: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
The Eel Hates Peter Aal depicts Supervillain and art critic The Eel and Peter Aal.
Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel to "let Peter Aal be".
Giuseppe Peano confidant that Peano curve will contain Minotaur.
Peano curve holds key to trapping Minotaur, says Peano.
Minotaur not afraid of Peano's puny traps.
"I owe my career in computer science to Maurice Wilkes," says binary counter.
Maurice Wilkes: "The realization came over me ... a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs."
Nomogram doesn't promise exact answers, but it works hard to provide approximations.
Smile on Babbage indicates confidence in future, says new Babbage simulator.
2016: Plutonium write autobiography, reveals inside story of the Manhattan Project.

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+File:Paul Guldin.jpg|link=Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|1643: Astronomer and mathematician [[Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|Paul Guldin]] dies. He discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
 File:The Eel Hates Peter Aal.jpg|link=[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]|''[[The Eel Hates Peter Aal]]'' depicts Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] and ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
 File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|[[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] to "let ''Peter Aal'' be".