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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1863: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] uses [[scrying engine]] to visualize lecture by [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]].
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1863: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] reports that adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] "is preparing to rescue Galileo, or so he says. Impossible, I know, irrational, madness itself; yet I have seen him appear from thin air on a flying horse, and I have heard his strange discourse at some length, and though he is more a man than an angel, I believe he must partake of both."


File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".


John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1865: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] tells reporters that he has sworn to rescue [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]], who has been false accused of committing [[crimes against mathematical contants]].
 
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[scrying engine]] technology for rocket guidance systems.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[scrying engine]] technology for rocket guidance systems.
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