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• ... that astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician '''[[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]]''' devised his own geocentric planetary theory, and that the Maginian System consisted of eleven rotating spheres, which he described in his ''Novæ cœlestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici'' (Venice, 1589)?
• ... that mathematician and astronomer '''[[Pietro Cataldi (nonfiction)|Pietro Cataldi]]''' contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; and that Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588?
 
• ... that the essay ''Man's Inhumanity to Man'' by writer and alleged troll '''[[Culvert Origenes]]''' profoundly influenced three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers?

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• ... that mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; and that Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588?

• ... that the essay Man's Inhumanity to Man by writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes profoundly influenced three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers?

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