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File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | ||
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | |||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, 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.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.