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File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and counteract [[geometry solvent]].


||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
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File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1960: Astronomer, astrophysicist, and criminal investigator [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] publishes new theory of stellar metallicity which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
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||2010: Norman Hetherington dies ... cartoonist and puppeteer. Pic.
||2010: Norman Hetherington dies ... cartoonist and puppeteer. Pic.


||File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
||2013: Robert Mortimer Ellis dies - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

    1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

  • 1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

    1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

  • 1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

    1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

  • 1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

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