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• ... that minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor '''[[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]]''' Schickard designed and built calculating machines; and that he also invented techniques for producing improved maps? | • ... that minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor '''[[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]]''' Schickard designed and built calculating machines; and that he also invented techniques for producing improved maps? | ||
• ... that physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter '''[[Galileo Galilei]]''' uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s observatory to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]]? | |||
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• ... Isaac Newton wrote, in a letter to Oldenburg (to be forwarded to Leibniz): "the basis of these operations, sufficiently obvious (since now I cannot continue my explanation) I have thus rather concealed 6a 2c d æ13e 2f 7i 3l 9n 4o 4q 2r 4s 9t 12v x."; and that the decoded sentence was later published by Wallis as "Data Æquatione quotcumque, fluentes quantitates involvente, fluxiones invenire, et vice versa," (Given any equation, involving fluent quantities, to find the fluxions, and vice versa); and that fluentes in the work of Newton are changing quantities, and fluxions their rates of change?
• ... that minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard Schickard designed and built calculating machines; and that he also invented techniques for producing improved maps?
• ... that physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants?