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Galileo | Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution |
Sir Isaac Newton | was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian the most influential people in human history. the most influential people in human history. |
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban | was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England |
Nicolaus Copernicus (German) | was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe |
Johannes Kepler(German pronunciation | was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and 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 |
René Descartes (French pronunciation: | was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch |