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File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1552: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation. | File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1552: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation. | ||
||1675: Guillaume Delisle born ... cartographer. | ||1675: Guillaume Delisle born ... cartographer. Pic. | ||
||1683: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur born ... entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale. | ||1683: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur born ... entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale. | ||
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File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1692: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to rewrite existing manuscripts using satirical premises. | File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1692: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to rewrite existing manuscripts using satirical premises. | ||
||1704: Louis Godin born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1704: Louis Godin born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1735: Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde born ... mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. Pic: http://serge.mehl.free.fr/chrono/Vandermonde.html | ||1735: Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde born ... mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. Pic: http://serge.mehl.free.fr/chrono/Vandermonde.html | ||
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1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1692: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to rewrite existing manuscripts using satirical premises.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1944: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new drug to stimulate crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Steganographic analysis of excerpt from "Burglars" unexpected reveals "at least half a gigabyte of encrypted data, probably related to the ENIAC program".