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He was a famous explorer, descovered that the Earth wasnt flat. Christopher-Columbus
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He was one of the important people ever, his ideas lead to endless amounts of modern inventions. Leonardo-Da-Vinci
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He was a student of astronomy. He presented the heliocentric theory, which rested on the revolutionary notion that the Earth orbited the sun. Nicolas-Copernicus
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He was the first to produce a major work on plants. He fell victim to a blunder made by many botanists of the time. In reverence for the ancients, whose botanical studies were widely revered, in his study he attempted to compare his findings to those of the Greeks and Romans. Otto Brunfels
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He was a great astronomical observer, and made accurate and long-term records of his observations. He derived his view of the structure of the solar system, which the moon and sun orbited the Earth and the remaining planets orbited the sun. Tycho Brahe
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He was one of the great philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. His thoughts on logic and ethics in science and his ideas on the cooperation and interaction of the various fields of science. Francis-Bacon
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Famous for his theory which was proven to be correct after he was sentenced to house arrest for the remaineder of his life Galileo Galile
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He was the foremost thinker of the era on human mechanics. His 1680 work, On the Motion of Animals, is recognized as the greatest early triumph of mechanics to the human organism. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
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He worked with his colleague Robert Hooke to discern the properties of the air, experimenting with air pressure and the composition of the atmosphere. He proved that only a part of the air is used in respiration and combustion, and is credited with the discovery of oxygen.
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Famous for his theories on motion. Perhaps the most influential scientist of all time, Newton took the current theories on astronomy a step further and formulated an accurate comprehensive model of the workings of the universe based on the law of universal gravitation. Isaac Newton
