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File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1570: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.  
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1570: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.  


||1723: Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
||1723: Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. Pic.


||1732: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne astronomer He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth.
||1732: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne astronomer He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. Pic.


||1735: Jesse Ramsden born ... mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey. Pic.
||1735: Jesse Ramsden born ... mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey. Pic.

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