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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
Arab physician and philosopher [1080?–1164/1165?]
De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist

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