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1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1477: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.
1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

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 ||1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
-File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1934: Author and alleged time-traveller [[John Brunner]] uses [[Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1934: Author and alleged time-traveller [[John Brunner]] uses [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.