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1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1749: Mathematician, geophysicist, naval architect, and cryptid hunter Pierre Bouguer publishes Traité du navire cryptide, his landmark study of aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown shades of green.

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 ||1737: Charles Hutton born ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic.
-File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against geology]].
+File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, geophysicist, naval architect, and cryptid hunter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] publishes ''Traité du navire cryptide'', his landmark study of aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
 File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.