Isaac Newton04 January 1643, British
Mathematician
Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Johannes Kepler27 December 1571, German
Astronomer, Mathematician & Astrologer
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek24 October 1632, Dutch
Scientist
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Christiaan Huygens14 April 1629, Dutch
Mathematician
Pierre de Fermat17 August 1601, French
Lawyer
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli15 October 1608, Italian
Physicist
Johann Bernoulli06 August 1667, Swiss
Mathematician
Jacob Bernoulli27 December 1654, Swiss
Mathematician
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Marcello Malpighi10 March 1628, Italian
Physician
Sir Christopher Wren20 October 1632, British
Architect
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Johan de Witt24 September 1625
Mathematician, Politician
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Francesco Redi18 February 1626, Italian
Physician, Naturalist, Poet, Writer, Painter,
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Otto von Guericke20 November 1602, German
physicist, inventor, politician, dilettante,
Robert Fludd17 January 1574, British
Physician
John Wallis23 November 1616, British
mathematician, philosopher, musicologist,
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Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
Nicolas Steno01 January 1638, Danish
Scientist
Ole Rømer25 September 1644, Danish
Astronomer, Physicist, Scientist, University
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Isaac Barrow30 September 1630, British
Mathematician
Thomas Sydenham10 September 1624, British
Physician
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Hennig Brand1630 AD, German
Merchant
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland27 April 1564, British
Nobleman
Ferdinand Verbiest09 October 1623, Belgian
Missionary
Johannes Hevelius28 January 1611, German, Polish
Astronomer, Entrepreneur, Cartographer
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier16 February 1664, Swiss
astronomer, mathematician
John Flamsteed19 August 1646, British
Astronomer
John Gerard1545 AD, British
Botanist
John Bartram23 March 1699, American
Botanist
Giovanni Battista Morgagni25 February 1682, Italian
Anatomist
Herman Boerhaave31 December 1668
Philosopher, Botanist, Physician, Anatomist,
Jan Swammerdam12 February 1637, German, Dutch
Biologist
Guillaume Amontons31 August 1663, French
Physicist
Santorio Santorio29 March 1561, Italian, Slovenian
Physiologist
Stephen Hales17 September 1677, British
Botanist, Physicist, Chemist
Antoine Arnauld06 February 1612, French
Philosopher
Georg Ernst Stahl22 October 1659, German
Chemist
Christoph Scheiner
Francis Hauksbee1660 AD, British
Scientist
Pierre Vernier19 August 1580, French
Mathematician
Gaspard Bauhin17 January 1560, Swiss
Botanist
José de Acosta30 September 1540, Spanish
Missionary
Seki Takakazu1642 AD, Japanese
Mathematician
Nehemiah Grew26 September 1641, British
Medico
Edmund Gunter1581 AD, British
Mathematician
Jeremiah Horrocks1617 AD, British
astronomer, mathematician
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort05 June 1656, French
Botanist
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
Kâtip Çelebi1609 AD, Ancient Roman
Polymath
Christopher Polhem18 December 1661, Swedish
Scientist
Sophia Brahe
Franciscus Sylvius15 March 1614, Dutch
Physician
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli28 January 1608, Italian
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Historian of
Carolus Clusius01 February 1526, Belgian
Botanist
Thomas Bartholin20 October 1616, Danish
Physician
Edme Mariotte1620 AD, French
Physicist
Andrea Cesalpino06 June 1519, Italian
Physician
Andreas Libavius1555 AD, German
Physician
Johann Rudolf Glauber10 March 1604, German
Chemist
Guarino Guarini17 January 1624, Italian
Architect
Girard Desargues21 February 1591, French
Mathematician
Jacques Cassini18 February 1677, French
Astronomer
John Hadley16 April 1682, British
Mathematician
Maria Margaretha Kirch25 February 1670, German
Astronomer
Gilles de Roberval09 August 1602, French
Mathematician
John Mayow24 May 1640, British
Chemist
John Machin1686 AD, British
Mathematician
Georg Brandt26 June 1694, Swedish
Chemist
George Hadley12 February 1685, British
Lawyer
Firmin Abauzit11 November 1679, French
Scholar
Kaibara Ekken17 December 1630, Japanese
Philosopher
Diego de Torres Villarroel17 June 1693, Spanish
Writer
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc01 December 1580, French
Astronomer
John Greaves1602 AD, British
Mathematician, astronomer, and antiquary
Theophan Prokopovich18 June 1681, Ukrainian, Russian
Theologian