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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

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 File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s astronomical observations to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
 File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.