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||1519: Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
||1519: Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
File:Pedro Nunes.png|link=Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|1577: Mathematician, cosmographer, and crime-fighter [[Pedro Nunes (nonfiction)|Pedro Nunes]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on navigation and cartography to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]] at sea.


File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1602: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1602: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

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