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||1616: Thomas Bartholin born ... physician, mathematician, and theologian. | ||1616: Thomas Bartholin born ... physician, mathematician, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of the lymphatic system in humans and for his advancements of the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically. Pic. | ||
File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1631: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] dies. He was a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system. | File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1631: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] dies. He was a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system. | ||
||1401: Klaus Störtebeker dies ... pirate. Pic. | ||1401: Klaus Störtebeker dies ... pirate. Pic. | ||
||1713: Archibald Pitcairne dies ... physician and academic ... ribald. | ||1713: Archibald Pitcairne dies ... physician and academic ... ribald. | ||
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1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1985: Physicist and crime-fighter William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
