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File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse of Odysseus (nonfiction)|April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's ''Odyssey'' contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world." | File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse of Odysseus (nonfiction)|April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's ''Odyssey'' contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world." | ||
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1491: Polymath ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head|Leonardo da Vinci]]'' designs a mechanical soldier. The first working prototype will take over a decade to complete, after which da Vinci will lose all funding for the project. | |||
File:Petrus Apianus.jpg|link=Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|1495: Mathematician and astronomer [[Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|Petrus Apianus]] born. His works on cosmography, ''Astronomicum Caesareum'' (1540) and ''Cosmographicus liber'' (1524), will be extremely influential in his time. | File:Petrus Apianus.jpg|link=Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|1495: Mathematician and astronomer [[Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|Petrus Apianus]] born. His works on cosmography, ''Astronomicum Caesareum'' (1540) and ''Cosmographicus liber'' (1524), will be extremely influential in his time. | ||
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April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."
1491: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci designs a mechanical soldier. The first working prototype will take over a decade to complete, after which da Vinci will lose all funding for the project.
1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. His works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.
1673: Leibniz wrote to Oldenburg about series: "I conjecture that Mr. Collins himself does not speak of these summations of infinite series because he brings forward the example of the series 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, ... which if it is continued to infinity cannot be summed because the sum is not finite, like the sum of the triangular numbers, but infinite. But now I am cramped by the space of my paper."
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes prevents gang of math criminals from kidnapping Leibniz and Newton.
1705: Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne at Trinity College.
1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series explains why Colonel Zersetzung failed to detonate the Tybee Bomb.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.