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||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer.
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer.
||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.

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