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||1269: King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
||1269: King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.


||1504: Bernhard Walther dies ... astronomer and humanist.
||1504: Bernhard Walther dies ... astronomer and humanist. No DOB. Pic: residence/observatory.


File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
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||1650: Matthäus Merian dies ... engraver and cartographer. Pic.
||1650: Matthäus Merian dies ... engraver and cartographer. Pic.


||1693: Mathematician Christian August Hausen born. who is known for his research on electricity.
||1693: Mathematician Christian August Hausen born. He is known for his research on electricity. Pic.


File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1771: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.  
File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1771: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.  

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