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File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1718: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] dies.  
File:Petrus Apianus.jpg|link=Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|1552: Mathematician and astronomer [[Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|Petrus Apianus]] dies. His works on cosmography, ''Astronomicum Caesareum'' (1540) and ''Cosmographicus liber'' (1524), were extremely influential in his time.


File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1774: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] born. He will establish the reality of meteorites, make an early balloon flight, and study the polarization of light.
File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1774: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] born. He will establish the reality of meteorites, make an early balloon flight, and study the polarization of light.


File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1793: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which improved maritime navigation techniques.  
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1822: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] born.  He will invent and patent rolled celluloid photographic film.


File:Percy Williams Bridgman.jpg|link=Percy Williams Bridgman (nonfiction)|1882: Physicist and academic [[Percy Williams Bridgman (nonfiction)|Percy Williams Bridgman]] born. He will win the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
File:Waking the Slate.jpg|link=The Waking of the Slate|1900: '''[[The Waking of the Slate]]''' ceremony is louder than ever.


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1910: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] dies.
File:Loch_Ness_Monster_Surgeon's_photograph.jpg|link=Loch Ness Monster (nonfiction)|1934: The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the [[Loch Ness Monster (nonfiction)|Loch Ness Monster]], is published in the Daily Mail. (It will be revealed as a hoax in 1999.)
 
File:Edward_Victor_Appleton_(1947).jpg|link=Edward Victor Appleton (nonfiction)|1965: Physicist and academic [[Edward Victor Appleton (nonfiction)|Edward Victor Appleton]] dies. Appleton made pioneering contributions to radiophysics, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.


File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] demonostrates that the existence of a physical solution does not obviate proof of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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