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||1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | ||
File:Pascaline.jpg|link=Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|1670: First known use of [[Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|Pascal's calculator]] in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel]] experiments. | |||
File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer. | File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer. | ||
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1670: First known use of Pascal's calculator in time travel experiments.
1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.