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File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1932: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1932: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition). | ||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | |||
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1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1674: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus uses Gnomon algorithm to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1825: Bergamot essential oil gives Charles Grey the strength to carry on against all opposition.
1842: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1888: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1932: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.