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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1604: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from kidnapping the newborn [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]]. [[Anarchimedes]] intended to raise [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]] in captivity, taking credit for [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]]'s chemical research.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1604: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from kidnapping the newborn [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]]. [[Anarchimedes]] intended to raise [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]] in captivity, taking credit for [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]]'s chemical research.


||1628: Marcello Malpighi born ... biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology".  
||1628: Marcello Malpighi born ... biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology". Pic.


||1662: Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb dies ... polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. Hartlib is often described as an "intelligencer", and indeed has been called "the Great Intelligencer of Europe". His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. No birth date. Pic: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/catalog.php?num=82
||1662: Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb dies ... polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. Hartlib is often described as an "intelligencer", and indeed has been called "the Great Intelligencer of Europe". His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. No birth date. Pic: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/catalog.php?num=82
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||1709: Georg Wilhelm Steller born ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer.
||1709: Georg Wilhelm Steller born ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer.


||1724: Urban Hjärne dies ... chemist, geologist, and physician.
||1724: Urban Hjärne dies ... chemist, geologist, and physician. Pic.


||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.
||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.

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