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1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.
1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
1997: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.

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 File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
+File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1765: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.
 ||1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574)
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 File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|2007: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels.
-File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2008: Signed first edition of [[Ultravore]] illstration sells for five hundred thousand dollars.
+File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1997: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' reveals previously unknown [[cryptographic numen]].
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