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||1498: Antonio del Pollaiuolo dies ... painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. Pic (bust in niche). (Fiction: Scrying engine.)
||1498: Antonio del Pollaiuolo dies ... painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. Pic (bust in niche). (Fiction: Scrying engine.)


||1615: Giambattista della Porta dies ... scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation. His most famous work, first published in 1558, is entitled Magiae Naturalis (Natural Magic). In this book he covered a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy. No DOB. Pic.
File:Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|link=Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|1615: Polymath [[Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|Giambattista della Porta]] dies. Della Porta's most famous work, ''Magiae Naturalis'' (1558), covers a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy.


||1682: Johann Friedrich Böttger born ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic.
||1682: Johann Friedrich Böttger born ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic.

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