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File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics". | File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics". | ||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | ||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.