Isaac Newton04 January 1643, British
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer
Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher, Rebel
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Johannes Kepler27 December 1571, German
Astronomer, Mathematician & Astrologer
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek24 October 1632, Dutch
Scientist
Christiaan Huygens14 April 1629, Dutch
Mathematician
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Pierre de Fermat17 August 1601, French
Lawyer
Jacob Bernoulli27 December 1654, Swiss
Mathematician
Johann Bernoulli06 August 1667, Swiss
Mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli15 October 1608, Italian
Physicist
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, 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
Emanuel Swedenborg29 January 1688, Swedish
Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian
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,
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
John Wallis23 November 1616, British
mathematician, philosopher, musicologist,
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Isaac Barrow30 September 1630, British
Mathematician
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Nicolas Steno11 January 1638, Danish
anatomist, paleontologist, priest, cleric,
Otto von Guericke20 November 1602, German
physicist, inventor, politician, dilettante,
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William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Ole Rømer25 September 1644, Danish
Astronomer, Physicist, Scientist, University
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
Thomas Sydenham10 September 1624, British
Physician
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
John Flamsteed19 August 1646, British
Astronomer
Johannes Hevelius28 January 1611, German, Polish
Astronomer, Entrepreneur, Cartographer
Pierre Louis Maupertuis17 July 1698, French
astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, physicist
Herman Boerhaave31 December 1668
Philosopher, Botanist, Physician, Anatomist,
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle11 February 1657, French
Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Playwright, Satirist,
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier16 February 1664, Swiss
astronomer, mathematician
Stephen Hales17 September 1677, British
Botanist, Physicist, Chemist
Christoph Scheiner
Jeremiah Horrocks1617 AD, British
astronomer, mathematician
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli28 January 1608, Italian
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Historian of
Sophia Brahe
Giovanni Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Edward Bernard1638 AD, British
astronomer
James Gregory31 October 1638, Scottish
mathematician, astronomer, inventor,university
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