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File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] "stay out of Dutch waters." | |File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] "stay out of Dutch waters." | ||
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei. | File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1625: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei. | ||
||1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643) | ||1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643) | ||
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1723: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars. | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1812: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] has dream which inspires him to build a new type of [[scrying engine]]. | File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1812: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] has dream which inspires him to build a new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
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1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
