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File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|2012: [[Antikythera Team]] attends lecture by [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]].
 
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|2012: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
 
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
 
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
 
File:Angelo_Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
 
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
 
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