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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1970: Famed illustration Six Seconds to Hell sells for two million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.

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 File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
+||Sir Charles Lyell (b. 14 November 1797) was a Scottish geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public.
 ||Auguste Laurent (b. 14 November 1807) was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions.  Pic.