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File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses primitive [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses primitive [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | ||
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate | File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
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1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão uses primitive Brownian ratchet to design improved airship.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1984: Advances in Time travel technology generate record profits for transdimensional corporations.