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• December 29, 1609 Simon Mayr observes the moons of Jupiter, roughly a month before Galileo.
• December 29, 1731 Brook Taylor dies in Somerset House, London.
• December 29, 1829 Évariste Galois passes the admission exam for the École Polytechnique on the third try.
• December 29, 1856 Thomas Jan Stieltjes is born in Zwolle, in the Netherlands.
• December 29, 1891 Leopold Kronecker dies in Berlin.