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||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490) | ||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490) | ||
File:Jan Brożek.jpg||1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | ||
||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. | ||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. | ||
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1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.