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||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker.
||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker.
||1682: Mathematician Michele Rolle published an elegant solution to a difficult problem publicly posed by Ozanam: Find four integers the difference of any two of which is a perfect square as well as the sum of three of the numbers. This brought him public recognition. Pic.


||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic.
||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. No pic.

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