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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s observatory to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s observatory to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
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||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.


File:Wheel of Fire 2.jpg|link=Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|Wheel of Fire 2]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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  • 1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

    1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

    1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

    1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

  • 1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

    1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

  • 1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

    1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

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