Template:Selected anniversaries/May 14
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely republished, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.