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||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian.
||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian.


||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.
||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. Pic: book cover.


||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician. No pic online.
||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician. ... discovery ... the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. Maraldi is also credited for the first observation (1723) of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation that was unrecognized until its rediscovery in the early 19th century by Dominique Arago. At the time of Arago's discovery, Poisson's spot gave convincing evidence for the contested wave nature of light. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Giacomo+F.+Maraldi


||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic.
||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic.

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