Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Johannes Kepler27 December 1571, German
Astronomer, Mathematician & Astrologer
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Christiaan Huygens14 April 1629, Dutch
Mathematician
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Pierre de Fermat17 August 1601, French
Lawyer
Jacob Bernoulli27 December 1654, Swiss
Mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli15 October 1608, Italian
Physicist
Johann Bernoulli06 August 1667, Swiss
Mathematician
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Johan de Witt24 September 1625
Mathematician, Politician
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
John Wallis23 November 1616, British
mathematician, philosopher, musicologist,
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Robert Fludd17 January 1574, British
Physician
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Isaac Barrow30 September 1630, British
Mathematician
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist
Seki Takakazu1642 AD, Japanese
Mathematician
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier16 February 1664, Swiss
astronomer, mathematician
Ferdinand Verbiest09 October 1623, Belgian
Missionary
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle11 February 1657, French
Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Playwright, Satirist,
Antoine Arnauld06 February 1612, French
Philosopher
Guarino Guarini17 January 1624, Italian
Architect
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Edmund Gunter1581 AD, British
Mathematician
Pierre Vernier19 August 1580, French
Mathematician
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli28 January 1608, Italian
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Historian of
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
Thomas Bartholin20 October 1616, Danish
Physician
Girard Desargues21 February 1591, French
Mathematician
John Machin1686 AD, British
Mathematician
Diego de Torres Villarroel17 June 1693, Spanish
Writer
John Hadley16 April 1682, British
Mathematician
Gilles de Roberval09 August 1602, French
Mathematician
John Greaves1602 AD, British
Mathematician, astronomer, and antiquary
Theophan Prokopovich18 June 1681, Ukrainian, Russian
Theologian
Georg Stiernhielm07 August 1598, Swedish
Civil servant
Jakob Bernoulli01 January 1655, Swiss
Mathematician
Giovanni Ceva07 December 1647, Italian
Mathematician
Johannes Hudde23 April 1628, Dutch
Mathematician
Thomas Brattle20 June 1658, American
Merchant
James Gregory31 October 1638, Scottish
mathematician, astronomer, inventor,university
Georg Bernhard Bilfinger23 January 1693, German
Philosopher
Domenico Guglielmini27 September 1655, Italian
Mathematician
Tommaso Ceva20 December 1648, Italian
Mathematician
Takebe Kenkō1664 AD, Japanese
Mathematician
Henry Briggs01 February 1561, British
Mathematician
John Bainbridge1582 AD, British
Astronomer
Bernard Forest de Belidor1698 AD, Spanish, French
Engineer
Minggantu1692 AD, Chinese, Mongolian
Astronomer
Zhi zao Li1565 AD, Chinese
Mathematician