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• ... that '''[[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]]''''s reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance is founded on Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, and his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective, and ideal proportions?
• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat '''[[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]]''' (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?


• ... that '''Chaplygin gas''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?
• ... that surgeon and scientist '''[[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]]''' (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?


• ... that computer programmer Julia Ward Howe wrote the musical program "'''[[Battle Cry of the Cellular Automata]]'''" (also known, outside the United States, as "Mine Items Sort the Glory") using both syntax and semantics from the song "John Brown's Hardware Lies a-Moulding in the Scrap Parts Heap"?
• ... that '''[[Chaplygin gas (nonfiction)|Chaplygin gas]]''' is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?
 
• ... that ''On Halting Problems'' is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler '''[[Asclepius Myrmidon]]'''?

Latest revision as of 06:57, 5 April 2022

• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?

• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?

• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?

• ... that On Halting Problems is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon?