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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe. -
Period: Dec 31, 1514 to Oct 15, 1564
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy -
Period: Jan 22, 1561 to
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
galileo galilei
Galileo Galilei, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. -
Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. -
Period: Apr 1, 1578 to
William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician. He was the first to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart, though earlier writers had provided precursors of the theory. -
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René Descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic -
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Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of prominent royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas. -
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle, FRS, was a 17th-century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology -
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. -
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Maria Winkelmann
Maria Margarethe Kirch was a German astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period -
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the "father of modern chemistry," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He named both oxygen and hydrogen and predicted silicon.