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||1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540) | ||1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540) | ||
||1678 | File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biogist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. He will make key discoveries in a variety of fields including ancient texts and astronomy; his observations and experiments will also inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms. | ||
||Charles Adolphe Wurtz (b. 26 November 1817) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds | ||Charles Adolphe Wurtz (b. 26 November 1817) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds | ||
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1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biogist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan born. He will make key discoveries in a variety of fields including ancient texts and astronomy; his observations and experiments will also inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.