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Also Known As Rhazes • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī
Born c.854 • Rayy • Iran
Died 925 or 935 • Rayy • Iran
Notable Works “Kitāb al-Manṣūrī” • “Kitāb al-ḥāwī”
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German theologian and physician
Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and priest
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
Isaac ben Solomon Israeli
Jewish physician and philosopher

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