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Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas. | ||Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas. | ||
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. | ||
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File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | ||
|| | ||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. | ||
|| | File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1763: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. | ||
||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. | ||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. | ||
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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.