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• ... that mathematician '''[[Donald Sarason (nonfiction)|Donald Sarason]]''' made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing Mean Oscillation?
• ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?


• ... that the '''[[Superimposed Fraunhofer]]''' (also known as Super Fraunhofer, Fraunhofer Overlay, etc.) is a German postage stamp misprint in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inexplicably superimposed on the color spectrum bar, and that this misprint is a striking example of [[Abuse of notation (nonfiction)|abuse of notation]] in the field of Gnomonic philately?
• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor '''[[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]''' (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?
 
• ... that mathematician '''[[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]]''' (4 October 1759 – 8 April 1803) was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, and that he wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name?

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• ... that physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?

• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?

• ... that mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759 – 8 April 1803) was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, and that he wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name?

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