Template:Selected anniversaries/February 18: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 5: Line 5:


||1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486). Pic.
||1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486). Pic.
||1547: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī born ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?


File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to [[mathematical crimes]].  
File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to [[mathematical crimes]].  

Revision as of 20:37, 15 August 2018