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File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] dies. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.  
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] dies. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.  
File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1764: First known use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to generate a [[transdimensional corporation]].


||1769: Johann Christian Martin Bartels born ... mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. Pic.
||1769: Johann Christian Martin Bartels born ... mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. Pic.


||1831: Helena Blavatsky born ... mystic and author. Pic.
||1831: Helena Blavatsky born ... mystic and author. Pic.
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist and crime-fighter [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against light]].


||1848: George Stephenson dies ... engineer and academic. Pic.
||1848: George Stephenson dies ... engineer and academic. Pic.

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