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• ... that mathematician, linguist, poet, and scholar '''[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]]''' wrote a translation (1621), from Greek to Latin, of the ''Arithmetica'' of Diophantus;  that it was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that this translation renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as ''adaequalitat'', which became Fermat's technique of ''adequality'', a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus?
• ... that botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer discovered what would later be called liquid crystals, while experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate in the late 1880s, and that the discovery attracted attention, but that interest soon faded as no practical applications were found at the time?

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• ... that botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer discovered what would later be called liquid crystals, while experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate in the late 1880s, and that the discovery attracted attention, but that interest soon faded as no practical applications were found at the time?

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