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||1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723) | ||1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723) | ||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s astronomical observations to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. | File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. | ||
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||2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. | ||2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. | ||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge|2015: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data. | |||
|File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year. | |File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year. | ||
Revision as of 14:40, 21 October 2017
1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.