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||1547: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī born ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?
||1547: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī born ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?
File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to [[mathematical crimes]].


||1626: Francesco Redi born ... physician. Pic.
||1626: Francesco Redi born ... physician. Pic.
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||1880: Nikolay Zinin dies ... organic chemist. Pic: Extreme Moustache!
||1880: Nikolay Zinin dies ... organic chemist. Pic: Extreme Moustache!
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.


File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.

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