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|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] defends himself after sneak attack by [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]].


||1564: Christopher Marlowe born ... playwright, poet and translator.
||1564: Christopher Marlowe born ... playwright, poet and translator. Pic.


||1586: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.
||1586: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. Pic.


|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.


File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
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File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] analyzes fossil trilobite using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques, finds evidence of [[crimes against geological constants]].
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] analyzes fossil trilobite using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques, finds evidence of [[crimes against geological constants]].


||1718: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop, botanist and zoologist ... first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun.
||1718: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop, botanist and zoologist ... first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun. Pic.


File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  

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  • 1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

    1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

    1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

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