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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1484: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] publishes ''Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer'', for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
 
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1542: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] publishes ''Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer'', for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1858: Mathematician and philosopher [[Havelock]] publishes computational biography of [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]].
 
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
File:Du_calcul_des_derivations_(1800)_by_Louis_François_Antoine_Arbogast.png|link=Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|1803: Mathematician [[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]] dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.
File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|1910: [[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] used in series of [[math crimes]], authorities name [[Skip Digits]] as person of interest.
 
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity.
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour.
 
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: ''Kwik nagenoeg nul'' ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").
 
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  • 1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

    1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

  • 1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

    1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

  • 1803: Mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.

    1803: Mathematician Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.

  • 1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.

    1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.

  • 1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").

    1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").

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