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File:Charles Dupin.jpg|link=Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician [[Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|Charles Dupin]] born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
File:Charles Dupin.jpg|link=Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician [[Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|Charles Dupin]] born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1785: Mathematician, philosopher, and phenomenological crime-fighter  [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]]  publishes new theory of ''sensus communis'') based on the belief that there is a [[Gnomon algorithm]] which accurately represents the external world. Reid's work will soon find applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)
||1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)

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