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File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1580: Physician, occultist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of secretly distributing [[clandestiphrine]] and other transdimensional drugs. | File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1580: Physician, occultist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of secretly distributing [[clandestiphrine]] and other transdimensional drugs. | ||
File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. | File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. Morin will champion the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin will also oppose Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638. | ||
||1592: Balthazar Gerbier born ... courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting, contriving of scenes, masques, shows and entertainments for great Princes... as likewise for making of engines useful in war." No death date. Pic. | ||1592: Balthazar Gerbier born ... courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting, contriving of scenes, masques, shows and entertainments for great Princes... as likewise for making of engines useful in war." No death date. Pic. |
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1580: Physician, occultist, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Johann Weyer publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly distributing clandestiphrine and other transdimensional drugs.
1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born. Morin will champion the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin will also oppose Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter Claude Shannon publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: German diplomat and intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius dies. Gisevius was a covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Crimson Blossom 2 reveals previously unknown color which is "midway between red and violet."