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Also Known As Vitello
Born 1220 • Silesia
Died After 1278
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Isaac Newton
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
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William Osler
Sir William Osler, Baronet
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St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
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Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster
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Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist