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File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1542: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] publishes ''Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer'', for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature. | File:Johannes Schöner.jpg|link=Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|1542: [[Johannes Schöner (nonfiction)|Johannes Schöner]] publishes ''Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer'', for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature. | ||
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1858: Mathematician and philosopher [[Havelock]] publishes computational biography of [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]. | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge. | |||
File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|1910: [[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] used in series of [[math crimes]], authorities name [[Skip Digits]] as person of interest. | File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|1910: [[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] used in series of [[math crimes]], authorities name [[Skip Digits]] as person of interest. | ||
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity. | File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | ||
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1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.