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    and software concepts worked out much later by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. In 1679, while mulling over his binary arithmetic, Leibniz imagined a...
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    English nobleman, sailor, and mathematician (d. 1665) January 29 – Jean Paul Médaille, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1689) February 12 – Olaus Verelius, scholar...
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