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||1557 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (b. 1491)
||1557: Jacques Cartier dies ... navigator and explorer.


||1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer and spy (b.1565)
||1599: Cornelis de Houtman dies ... explorer and spy.


||1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
||1600: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer.


File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
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]].


File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (b. 1588)
||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian.


||1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker.


||John Keill (d. 1721) was a Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.
||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic.


||1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist.


||1834 Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno.
||1834 Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno.

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