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||1599: Cornelis de Houtman dies ... explorer and spy.
||1600: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer.


File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian.
||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian.


||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker.
||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. Pic.


||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.
||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.

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