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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2017: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.

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 ||1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
-File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra.
+File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
 File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1833: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].