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    for more than 60 years. Thomas Jacobsen Fincke was born in Flensburg in Schleswig. Fincke was the son of Councillor Jacob Fincke and Anna Thorsmede. He...
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  • (born 1967), American astronaut Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), Danish mathematician, physicist and professor William Fincke (1878–1927), American football...
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    Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke (born March 14, 1967) is an American astronaut who formerly held the American record for the most time in space (381.6 days)...
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    Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629) and Anna Fincke, daughter of the mathematician Thomas Fincke. As part of his studies, he travelled in Europe for...
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    under Catholic rule. Worm married Dorothea Fincke, the daughter of a friend and colleague, Thomas Fincke. Fincke was a Danish mathematician and physicist...
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    in Jutland. He was the son of a schoolmaster, and a descendant of Thomas Fincke on his mother's side. At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination...
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  • 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (b. 1577) 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) 1692 – Johannes Zollikofer...
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    Bartholin was married to Anna Fincke, daughter of the mathematician Thomas Fincke. His sons, Bertel Bartholin (1614–1690), Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680) and...
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    the last Franciscan friar in Flensburg and critic of the Reformation Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), Danish mathematician, physicist, and professor at the University...
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    tangent and secant were first introduced by the Danish mathematician Thomas Fincke in his book Geometria rotundi (1583). The 17th century French mathematician...
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  • writer Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, physician and Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), mathematician Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), physician...
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    Svane 1651 1652 Johan Müller 1652 1653 Jacob Fincke 1653 1654 Thomas Bang 1654 1654 Ole Worm 1654 1654 Thomas Bartholin 1654 1656 Peder Spormand 1656 1657...
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    theologian Poul Egede (1708–1789), theologian, linguist and missionary Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), mathematician and physicist Christian Foss (1626–1680)...
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  • scholar (d. 1602) 1538 – Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (d. 1612) 1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656) 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán...
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    first scientific documentation of supernovas, mentor of Johannes Kepler Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), Danish mathematician and physicist Caspar Bartholin (1585–1629)...
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    circumference a secans exterior. The trigonometric secant, named by Thomas Fincke (1583), is more specifically based on a line segment with one endpoint...
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  • Alessandro Piccolomini, De Sphaera, Basle 1565 Thomas Digges, Alae seu Scalae Mathematicae, London 1573 Thomas Fincke, Geometria Rotundi, Basle 1583 Galileo,...
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    Germany, most by burning. January 1 – Thomas Walsingham, English literary patron (d. 1630) January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist...
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  • calendar) – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (died 1742) April 24 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (born 1561) November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Morin,...
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    April 10 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (b. 1621) April 24 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) April 27 Jan van Goyen...
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  • of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden (died 1693 in Sweden) 24 April – Thomas Fincke, mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) "Frederick III: king of Denmark...
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  • and saint (d. 1624) 1561 January 1 – Thomas Walsingham, English literary patron (d. 1630) January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist...
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  • ultimately not ratified. November 1569 – Siege of Varberg 1561 6 January – Thomas Fincke, mathematician and physicist (died 1656) 1562 3 March – Gellio Sasceride...
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    (1663-1677) Thomas Fincke (1677-1704) Drude Henriksdatter Müller gift Fincke (1704-1705) Henrik Thomsen Fincke (1705-1711) Karen Gyldensparre gift Fincke (1711-1712)...
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    April 10 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (b. 1621) April 24 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) April 27 Jan van Goyen...
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  • William Mann Fincke (January 1, 1878 – May 31, 1927) was an American football player, pacifist minister, and educator. He played college football for the...
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    Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the...
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  • de la test humaine in Paris. Smallpox epidemic in Chile. January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (died 1656) January 22 – Francis Bacon, English...
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    Archives. Thomas Bartholin was the second of the six sons of Caspar Bartholin the Elder, a physician born in Malmø, Scania, and his spouse Anne Fincke. Bartholin...
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    Thomas Gautier Pesquet (French pronunciation: [tɔmɑ ɡotje pɛskɛ]; born 27 February 1978) is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, European Space Agency astronaut...
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