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  • Charles Babbage – Designed three calculating engines and completed none. Held Newton's chair eleven years, never lectured. The Times got his birth year wrong in his obituary.
  • Isaac Newton – English natural philosopher (1643–1727) whose universal gravitation the flat-Earth tradition never forgave, and who spent as much effort on alchemy and biblical chronology as on physics.

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