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File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse of Odysseus (nonfiction)|1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's ''Odyssey'' contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Time-travelling combat physician [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Baron Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]].
 
File:Petrus Apianus.jpg|link=Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|1495: Mathematician and astronomer [[Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|Petrus Apianus]] born. Apianus' works on cosmography, ''Astronomicum Caesareum'' (1540) and ''Cosmographicus liber'' (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.
 
File:John_Hadley.jpg|link=John Hadley (nonfiction)|1682: Mathematician [[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]] born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.
 
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]].
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies.  He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies.  Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|2008: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]."
 
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
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  • 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

    1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

  • 1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. Apianus' works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

    1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. Apianus' works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

  • 1682: Mathematician John Hadley born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

    1682: Mathematician John Hadley born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

  • 1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

    1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

  • 2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

    2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

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