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File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
File:Bartolomeu | File:The Passarola, a primitive airship devised by Bartolomeu de Gusmão.png|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]], fails to take place. | ||
||1756: Olof Celsius (the elder) dies ... botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic. | ||1756: Olof Celsius (the elder) dies ... botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic. | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."