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||1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator (d. 1593) | ||1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator (d. 1593) | ||
||Niccolò Cabeo (February 26, 1586 – June 30, 1650), also known as Nicolaus Cabeus, was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. | |||
||1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. | ||1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. | ||
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1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
1648: Niels Steensen uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate fossils.
1963: Brainiac Explains lecture series nominated for Manhattan Project award.
2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
2012: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.