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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.)


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.
File:Giambattista della Porta.jpg|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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  • 1615: Polymath 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.

    1615: Polymath 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.

  • 1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

    1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

  • 1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

    1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

  • 1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

    1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

  • 1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

    1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

  • 1965: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Val Logsdon Fitch visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the decay of K-mesons as evidence that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time.

    1965: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Val Logsdon Fitch visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the decay of K-mesons as evidence that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time.

  • 1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 becomes the object of controversy when it is accused by APTO investigators of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files, a computational felony.

    2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 becomes the object of controversy when it is accused by APTO investigators of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files, a computational felony.

  • 2018: The Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization (APTO) clears Two Creatures 3 of all charges. Two Creatures 3 was accused of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files; APTO investigators discovered that Two Creatures 3 had been framed by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2018: The Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization (APTO) clears Two Creatures 3 of all charges. Two Creatures 3 was accused of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files; APTO investigators discovered that Two Creatures 3 had been framed by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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