Ibn Waḥshīyah

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Flourished	c.900 -
Notable Works	“al-Fillahah an-Nabatiyah”

Ibn al-ʿAwwām

Islamic author

John Bachman

American naturalist and minister

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella

Roman author

Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

Muslim alchemist

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Robert J. Braidwood

American anthropologist

Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation

Isaac Newton

English physicist and mathematician

Antoine Lavoisier

French chemist

Carolus Linnaeus

Swedish botanist

Avicenna

Persian philosopher and scientist

Justus, baron von Liebig

German chemist

Charles Lyell

Scottish geologist

al-Bīrūnī

Persian scholar and scientist

Claude Bernard

French scientist

George Washington Carver

American agricultural chemist

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French biologist

Sir Humphry Davy

British chemist

E.O. Wilson

American biologist

Galen

Greek physician

Ptolemy

Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

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