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File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1553: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] uses the generating circles of hypocycloids (later named Cardano circles or cardanic circles) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD (b. 14 August 1737) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.
||Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD (b. 14 August 1737) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.

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