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File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] "stay out of Dutch waters." | File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] "stay out of Dutch waters." | ||
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)]] dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei. | File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei. | ||
||1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643) | ||1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643) | ||
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1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
