Isaac Newton04 January 1643, British
Mathematician
Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Johannes Kepler27 December 1571, German
Astronomer, Mathematician & Physicist
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek24 October 1632, Dutch
Scientist
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Christiaan Huygens14 April 1629, Dutch
Mathematician, Physicist
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Sir Christopher Wren20 October 1632, British
Architect
Pierre de Fermat17 August 1601, French
Lawyer
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Jacob Bernoulli27 December 1654, Swiss
Mathematician
Johann Bernoulli06 August 1667, Swiss
Mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli15 October 1608, Italian
Physicist
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Marcello Malpighi10 March 1628, Italian
Physician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Johan de Witt24 September 1625
Mathematician, Politician
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland27 April 1564, British
Nobleman
Lady Margaret Lucas Cavendish1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
Robert Fludd17 January 1574, British
Physician
John Wallis23 November 1616, British
mathematician, philosopher, musicologist,
Francesco Redi18 February 1626, Italian
Physician, Naturalist, Poet, Writer, Painter,
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Otto von Guericke20 November 1602, German
physicist, inventor, politician, dilettante,
Isaac Barrow30 September 1630, British
Mathematician
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist
Charles R. Walgreen09 October 1873, American
American pharmacologist
Jan Baptista van Helmont12 January 1580, Belgian
Belgian scientist
Jan Evangelista Purkinje17 December 1787, Czech
Physiologist
Ole Rømer25 September 1644, Danish
Astronomer, Physicist, Scientist, University
Nicolas Steno11 January 1638, Danish
Scientist
Thomas Sydenham10 September 1624, British
Physician
John Flamsteed19 August 1646, British
Astronomer
Hennig Brand1630 AD, German
Merchant
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Johannes Hevelius28 January 1611, German, Polish
Astronomer, Entrepreneur, Cartographer
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier16 February 1664, Swiss
astronomer, mathematician
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
Ferdinand Verbiest09 October 1623, Belgian
Missionary
Herman Boerhaave31 December 1668
Philosopher, Botanist, Physician, Anatomist,
Guillaume Amontons31 August 1663, French
Physicist
John Gerard1545 AD, British
Botanist
James Gregory31 October 1638, Scottish
mathematician, astronomer, inventor,university
Stephen Hales17 September 1677, British
Botanist, Physicist, Chemist
Nehemiah Grew26 September 1641, British
Medico
John Bartram23 March 1699, American
Botanist
Pierre Vernier19 August 1580, French
Mathematician
Adam Schall von Bell01 May 1591, German
Astronomer
Baha' al-din al-'Amili18 February 1547, Iranian, Lebanese
islamic Scholar
Giovanni Battista Morgagni25 February 1682, Italian
Anatomist
Henry Briggs01 February 1561, British
Mathematician
Seki Takakazu1642 AD, Japanese
Mathematician
Kâtip Çelebi1609 AD, Ancient Roman
Polymath
Jan Swammerdam12 February 1637, German, Dutch
Biologist
Francis Hauksbee1660 AD, British
Scientist
Santorio Santorio29 March 1561, Italian, Slovenian
Physiologist
Antoine Arnauld06 February 1612, French
Philosopher
Christoph Scheiner25 July 1573, German
Priest
Sophia Brahe
Thomas Bartholin20 October 1616, Danish
Physician
Jean Picard21 July 1620, French
Georg Ernst Stahl22 October 1659, German
Chemist
José de Acosta30 September 1540, Spanish
Missionary
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli28 January 1608, Italian
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Historian of
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort05 June 1656, French
Botanist
Edme Mariotte1620 AD, French
Physicist
Franciscus Sylvius15 March 1614, Dutch
Physician
Edmund Gunter1581 AD, British
Mathematician
Carolus Clusius01 February 1526, Belgian
Botanist
Gaspard Bauhin17 January 1560, Swiss
Botanist
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
Guarino Guarini17 January 1624, Italian
Architect
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur28 February 1683, French
Entomologist
Benedetto Castelli1578 AD, Italian
Mathematician
Jeremiah Horrocks1617 AD, British
astronomer, mathematician
Girard Desargues21 February 1591, French
Mathematician
Maria Margaretha Kirch25 February 1670, German
Astronomer
Reinier de Graaf30 July 1641, Dutch
Physician
John Machin1686 AD, British
Mathematician
John Mayow24 May 1640, British
Chemist
Johann Rudolf Glauber10 March 1604, German
Chemist
Christopher Polhem18 December 1661, Swedish
Scientist
Jacques Cassini18 February 1677, French
Astronomer
Georg Eberhard Rumpf01 November 1627, German, Dutch
Naturalist
Andreas Libavius1555 AD, German
Physician