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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Digby

He was born at Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire, England... [h]e spent three years in Europe between 1620 and 1623, where Marie de Medici fell madly in love with him (as he later recounted)... n 1628, Digby became a privateer... [h]e spent enormous time and effort in the pursuits of astrology, and alchemy which he studied in the 1630s with Van Dyck... [h]is correspondence with Fermat contains the only extant mathematical proof by Fermat, a demonstration, using his method of descent, that the area of a Pythagorean triangle cannot be a square... Digby is also considered the father of the modern wine bottle.

Oh, and he wrote a cookbook.
 

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