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||1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. | ||1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. | ||
||1635 | File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying. | ||
||1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574) | ||1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574) | ||
||1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) | ||1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) | ||
|File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of gambling. | |||
||1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844) | ||1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844) | ||
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1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.