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||1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
||1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)


||1573 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
||1573 (or 1575) – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)


File:Andreas Libavius.jpg|link=Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist [[Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|Andreas Libavius]] dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.
File:Andreas Libavius.jpg|link=Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist [[Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|Andreas Libavius]] dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.

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