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Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1303: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] retrofitted with anti-[[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] module.
File:Gérard Desargues.jpg|link=Girard Desargues (nonfiction)|1591: Mathematician and engineer [[Girard Desargues (nonfiction)|Girard Desargues]] born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.
 
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1592: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|epidemic of capacitor failure]] by the early twenty-first century.
 
File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
 
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
 
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2002: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
 
File:Vuvuzela spectrum.png|link=Vuvuzela of Doom|1969: [[Vuvuzela of Doom]] exacerbates effects of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]].
File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|[[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
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Latest revision as of 10:20, 21 February 2022

  • 1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

    1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

  • 1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

    1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

  • 1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

    1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

  • 1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

    1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

  • 1900: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    1900: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • 1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

    1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

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