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The Renaissance Mathematicus has completed yet another orbit around the Sun and is, as of today, seventeen years old. Seventeen years of churning out history of science blog posts to keep myself occupied and hopefully entertain and maybe inform the one or other reader. Over the years I have either written something personal or something related to the number of the years on my blogiversaries and this year is no different. As regular readers should be aware I have had a rough year health wise. Back in October I managed to collapse a lung, not an experience I would recommend, which resulted in three very uncomfortable weeks in hospital and several weeks recovering from the aftereffects. I can, however, happily report that at the beginning of May I had a thorough lung examination and my lungs are currently in full working order. Let’s hope they stay that way! This year it was established that what I had thought over the last twenty or so years were degenerative orthopaedic problems are…