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||1509: Étienne Dolet born ... scholar and translator (d. 1546)
||1509: Étienne Dolet born ... scholar and translator. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=étienne+dolet


||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated Encyclopedie.  
||1546: Étienne Dolet dies ... scholar and translator. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=étienne+dolet
 
||1747: Diderot and d'Alembert became directors of ''Encyclopedie'' project. They replaced de Gua, who had earlier done much to systematize analytic geometry, as director of the publishing project which was to become the celebrated ''Encyclopedie''. Pic.


File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
||1806: Michel Adanson dies ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist. Pic.


||1844: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy born ... archaeologist and engineer ... noted for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse. Pic.
||1844: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy born ... archaeologist and engineer ... noted for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse. Pic.
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||1851: George Francis FitzGerald FRS born ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.
||1851: George Francis FitzGerald FRS born ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.


||1860: William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson born ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
||1860: William Kennedy Dickson born ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Pic.


||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.
||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.

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