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Leonardo da Vinci

1452 – 1519

Proved that art and science are one act of looking.

Italy·Engineering · Biology · Astronomy · LiteratureFull profile

Copernicus

1473 – 1543

Moved the Earth from the centre of the universe.

Poland·Astronomy · Mathematics

Galileo Galilei

1564 – 1642

Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.

Italy·Astronomy · Physics · MathematicsFull profile

Johannes Kepler

1571 – 1630

Three laws of planetary motion; every satellite orbit obeys them.

Germany·Astronomy · Mathematics

Christiaan Huygens

1629 – 1695

Wave theory of light, the pendulum clock, Saturn's rings.

Netherlands·Physics · Astronomy

Isaac Newton

1643 – 1727

Showed that one law governs the apple and the Moon alike.

United Kingdom·Physics · Mathematics · AstronomyFull profile