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File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.


||1737: Charles Hutton born ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.
||1737: Charles Hutton born ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic.


File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against geology]].
File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against geology]].

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