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File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1993: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] learning [[scrying engine]] techniques from poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]]. | File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1993: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] learning [[scrying engine]] techniques from poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]]. | ||
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | |||
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Revision as of 19:42, 6 May 2017
1701: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to design improved airship.
1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1888: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1993: "Hello World" computer program learning scrying engine techniques from poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.