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||1455 | ||1455: Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. | ||
File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. | File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. | ||
||1603 | ||1592: Balthazar Gerbier born ... courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting,[2] contriving of scenes, masques, shows and entertainments for great Princes... as likewise for making of engines useful in war." No death date. Pic. | ||
||1603: Andrea Cesalpino dies ... philosopher, physician, and botanist. | |||
||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. | ||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. | ||
||1739 | ||1739: At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. | ||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | ||
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1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter Claude Shannon publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.