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File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.


||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried.
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley


||1774: Friedrich Gottlob Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time.
||1774: Friedrich Gottlob Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time.
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||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Étienne+Bobillier
||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Étienne+Bobillier


||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.
||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+morey


||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist.
||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist.

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