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|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1722 Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654)
File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.


||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792)
||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792)

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