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Christoph Buel was born.
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march 5th 1574
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Christoffel Palts dies.
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He attended Eton School.
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Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March
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vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
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he devised a standardized notation for algebra, some of which remains in use today ( :: <>, pi).
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went to school at King's College in Cambridge.
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invented the logaritmic slide rule by putting Lines of Numbers on top of each other
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Edmund Gunter, devised a logarithmic rule in 1620
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Johann Weichmann was born.
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Diego Alvarez de Paz dies.
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John Napier invented logarithms.
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Georg Caspar Weckler was born.
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Jean De Tilly died
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He also developed the circular slide rule, which operated in the same fashion as a linear slide rule, except that it makes use of an inner and an outer ring Oughtred published his renowned work Circles of Proportion and the Horizontal Instrument in 1632.
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1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
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Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
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june 30th 1660
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died at age 86.
