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||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490)
||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490)


||1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
File:Jan Brożek.jpg||1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.


||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

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