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File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. | File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|link=Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|1634: [[Urbain Grandier (nonfiction)|Urbain Grandier]], accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. | ||
File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | ||
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||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. | ||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. | ||
||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. | ||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. | ||
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||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963) | ||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963) | ||
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1971: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] allegedly discovers secret [[math lab]] on the planet Venus. | |File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1971: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] allegedly discovers secret [[math lab]] on the planet Venus. | ||
||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells | ||2001 – David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) - DDT, thinning eggshells | ||
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] says it has "long since retired from fighting," adding that "crime-fighting is really a sport for the young." | |||
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Revision as of 11:06, 4 July 2017
1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head says it has "long since retired from fighting," adding that "crime-fighting is really a sport for the young."