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File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1126: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
 
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1324: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] discovers relationship between the Black Death and rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1126: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
 
File:Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens.jpg|link=Abraham Ortelius (nonfiction)|1527: Cartographer and geographer [[Abraham Ortelius (nonfiction)|Abraham Ortelius]] born. Ortelius will create the first modern atlas, the ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum''. He will also be one of the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.
 
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1934: [[John Brunner]] uses [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Sistine Chapel.jpg|link=Flooding the Sistine Chapel|1659: Proposals to [[Flooding the Sistine Chapel|flood the Sistine chapel]] "are equally useless to Science and Art alike," writes [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.
 
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1936: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses the theorem of the three geodesics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Tatyana_Afanasyeva.jpg|link=Tatyana Afanasyeva (nonfiction)|1964: Mathematician and theorist [[Tatyana Afanasyeva (nonfiction)|Tatyana Afanasyeva]] dies. She contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.  
 
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  • 1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1527: Cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius born. Ortelius will create the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He will also be one of the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.

    1527: Cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius born. Ortelius will create the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He will also be one of the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.

  • 1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

    1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

    1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

  • 1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 1964: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva dies. She contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

    1964: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva dies. She contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

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