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Thomas Fincke
1656Apr, 24

Thomas Fincke

Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
Thomas Fincke (6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.

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    Lettres provinciales

    Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
  • 30Jul

    Battle of Warsaw (1656)

    Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
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    Puritanism

    Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.