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||1470 Martin Waldseemüller, German mapmaker (d. 1520)
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
 
File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]], known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of [[high-energy literature]].


||1760 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (b. 1704)
||1760 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (b. 1704)

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