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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis. | File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis. | ||
||1640: Bernard Lamy born ... mathematician and theologian. | ||1640: Bernard Lamy born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic. | ||
||1648: Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | ||1648: Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.
1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.
1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.