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||1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) | ||1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) | ||
||Heinrich Maschke (b. 24 October 1853) was a German mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic. | |||
||1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907) | ||1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907) | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.