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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."


||1660: André Tacquet dies ... priest and mathematician ... adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles.
||1660: André Tacquet dies ... priest and mathematician ... adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover.


||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid.  
||1640: Jean de Beaugrand dies ... lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid.  
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||1884: St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator.
||1884: St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator.


||1884: John Simpson Chisum dies ... wealthy cattle baron in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century.  
||1884: John Chisum dies ... wealthy cattle baron in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century. Pic.


||1885: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.
||1885: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.

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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

    1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

    1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

  • 2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

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