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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Italy·Engineering · Biology · Astronomy · LiteratureFull profile
Copernicus
1473 – 1543Moved the Earth from the centre of the universe.
Poland·Astronomy · Mathematics
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.
Italy·Astronomy · Physics · MathematicsFull profile
Johannes Kepler
1571 – 1630Three laws of planetary motion; every satellite orbit obeys them.
Germany·Astronomy · Mathematics
Christiaan Huygens
1629 – 1695Wave theory of light, the pendulum clock, Saturn's rings.
Netherlands·Physics · Astronomy
Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727Showed that one law governs the apple and the Moon alike.
United Kingdom·Physics · Mathematics · AstronomyFull profile