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|link=Nathaniel Torporley (nonfiction)|1632: Date of clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer [[Nathaniel Torporley (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Torporley]]'s nuncipative will,  by which he bequeathed to the library of Sion College all his mathematical books, astronomical instruments, notes, maps, and a brass clock.
|link=Nathaniel Torporley (nonfiction)|1632: Date of clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer [[Nathaniel Torporley (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Torporley]]'s nuncipative will,  by which he bequeathed to the library of Sion College all his mathematical books, astronomical instruments, notes, maps, and a brass clock.
File:Sistine Chapel.jpg|link=Flooding the Sistine Chapel|1659: Proposals to [[Flooding the Sistine Chapel|flood the Sistine chapel]] "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.


||1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717)
||1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717)

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  • 1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.

    1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.

  • 1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

    1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

    1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

  • 1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

    1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

  • 1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

    1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

  • 1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

    1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

  • 1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

  • Golden Spiral wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Picture of the Day.

    Golden Spiral wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Picture of the Day.

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