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||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. | ||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. | ||
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1544: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[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]]. | |||
||Eustachio Manfredi (b. 1674) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and poet. | ||Eustachio Manfredi (b. 1674) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and poet. | ||
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1544: Mathematician and crime-fighter Gerolamo Cardano uses the generating circles of hypocycloids (later named Cardano circles or cardanic circles) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Chemist and physicist James Dewar born. He will invent the vacuum flask, which he will use in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1954: Mathematicians Alice Beta and Paul Erdős co-publish a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1996: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős dies. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
1997: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC sells for five hundred thousand dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.