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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics". | File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics". | ||
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | ||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | |||
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | ||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 unexpectedly replicates during cellular automata testing.
1979: Saccharomyces cerevisiae spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
