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• ... that medieval Andalusian polymath '''[[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]]''' (often Latinized as Averroes) was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against Ash'ari theologians led by Al-Ghazali, and although Ibn Rushd was highly regarded as a legal scholar, his philosophical ideas were controversial: whereas al-Ghazali believed that any individual act of a natural phenomenon occurred only because God willed it to happen, Ibn Rushd insisted phenomena followed natural laws that God created?
• ... that cartographer and geographer '''[[Abraham Ortelius (nonfiction)|Abraham Ortelius]]''' created the first modern atlas, the ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', and that Ortelius was among to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions?
 
• ... that mathematician, astronomer, and physicist '''[[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]]''' (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) founded the wave theory of [[Light (nonfiction)|light]], discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made contributed to the science of dynamics?
 
• ... that mathematician and theorist '''[[Tatyana Afanasyeva (nonfiction)|Tatyana Afanasyeva]]''' (19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands?
 
• ... that '''[[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]]''' wrote, in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII:  "proposals to '''[[Flooding the Sistine Chapel|flood the Sistine chapel]]''' "are equally useless to Science and Art alike."?

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• ... that cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius created the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and that Ortelius was among to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions?

• ... that mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made contributed to the science of dynamics?

• ... that mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva (19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands?

• ... that Christiaan Huygens wrote, in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII: "proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike."?

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