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File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1576: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1576: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
|File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.


File:Vincenzo Viviani.jpg|link=Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|1688: Mathematician and scientist [[Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|Vincenzo Viviani]] publishes new theory of acoustics which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Vincenzo Viviani.jpg|link=Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|1688: Mathematician and scientist [[Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|Vincenzo Viviani]] publishes new theory of acoustics which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
||1756: John Loudon McAdam born ... engineer.


File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1781: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century.
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1781: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century.

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