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Zhang Heng

78 – 139

Built the first seismoscope and mapped 2,500 stars.

China·Astronomy · Engineering · Literature

Galen of Pergamon

129 – 216

Physician to gladiators and emperors whose anatomy ruled medicine for 1,400 years.

Türkiye·Medicine · Philosophy · BiologyFull profile

Aryabhata

476 – 550

Gave place-value, an accurate π, and a rotating Earth in 499 CE.

India·Mathematics · Astronomy