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||1545: The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. | ||1545: The Tudor warship ''Mary Rose'' sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. Pic: remnants. | ||
File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1631: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1631: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | ||
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||1817: Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli born ... naturalist. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. Pic: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023813/https___phaidra_cab_unipd_it_o_1480.html | ||1817: Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli born ... naturalist. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. Pic: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023813/https___phaidra_cab_unipd_it_o_1480.html | ||
||1824: Agustín de Iturbide dies ... general and emperor. | ||1824: Agustín de Iturbide dies ... general and emperor. Although Iturbide's reign was short, it defined the political struggles before and after independence. Pic. | ||
||1838: Pierre Louis Dulong dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1838: Pierre Louis Dulong dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
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File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | ||
||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Wetherill | |||
||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist. | ||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist. | ||
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1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1632: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac discovers a new method of constructing magic squares, which he will soon use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat Niles Cartouchian foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1895: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane says that Extract of Radium gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1984: New type of Lorenz system displays artificial intelligence, forecasts crimes against mathematical constants up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.