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James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
Al-Biruni
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Persian astronomer (903-986)
Regiomontanus
Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Karl Guthe Jansky
American physicist and radio engineer
Petrus Apianus
German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (1495-1552)
Jost Bürgi
Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments and mathematician (1552-1632)
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī al-Tujibi (); also known as Al-Zarkali or Ibn Zarqala (1029–1100), was an Arab maker of astronomical instruments and an astrologer from the western part of the Islamic world.
Su Song
Chinese polymath and statesman (1020–1101)
Yrjö Väisälä
Finnish astronomer and physicist
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
Ottoman Syrian polymath (1526-1585)
Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥ
Al-Andalus mathematician and astronomer
Guo Shoujing
Chinese astronomer and mathematician (1231–1316)
Yi Xing
8th-century Buddhist monk and astronomer
George Willis Ritchey
American astronomer (1864–1945)
Richard of Wallingford
English mathematician
George Bassett Clark
American astronomer (1827-1891)
Liang Lingzan
Chinese engineer
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Pathani Samanta
Indian astronomer
Antonio Santucci
Italian astronomer and scientist