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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Italy·Engineering · Biology · Astronomy · LiteratureFull profile
Andreas Vesalius
1514 – 1564Dissected humans himself and corrected Galen; founded modern anatomy.
Belgium·Medicine · Biology
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1580 – 1644Coined 'gas' and ran the first quantitative plant-growth experiment.
Belgium·Chemistry · Biology
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632 – 1723Ground lenses in a draper's shop and discovered the microbial world.
Netherlands·Biology