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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
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Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
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William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
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Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
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Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
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Georges Lemaître
Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)
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Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
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Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
Giuseppe Piazzi thumbnail
Giuseppe Piazzi
Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
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Luca Pacioli
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer
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Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
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Bernard Bolzano
Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)
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Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
Athanasius Kircher thumbnail
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
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Nicolas Malebranche
French philosopher
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Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
Bonaventura Cavalieri thumbnail
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598–1647)
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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.
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Nicolas Steno
Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638–1686)
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Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer
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Jean Buridan
medieval philosopher (ca. 1300-1358)
Lazzaro Spallanzani thumbnail
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian priest, biologist and physiologist (1729-1799)
Nicole Oresme thumbnail
Nicole Oresme
14th century French philosopher and bishop
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Pierre André Latreille
French zoologist and entomologist (1762–1833)
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Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
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Edme Mariotte
French physicist, chemist, botanist and priest
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Gabriele Falloppio
Italian anatomist (1523-1562)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
16th century Italian theologian and astronomer
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Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
René Just Haüy thumbnail
René Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Giovanni Battista Venturi thumbnail
Giovanni Battista Venturi
Italian physicist
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French astronomer (1580–1637)
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Jean Picard
French astronomer
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Francesco Patrizi
Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
scientific academy of the Vatican City
Vincent of Beauvais thumbnail
Vincent of Beauvais
13th century French encyclopedist
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Armand David
French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist (1826–1900)
Ferdinand Verbiest thumbnail
Ferdinand Verbiest
Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)
Giuseppe Mercalli thumbnail
Giuseppe Mercalli
Italian volcanologist (1850-1914)
Pierre Varignon
French mathematician
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Thomas Bradwardine
English cleric, mathematician and courtier (c.1300–1349)
Giovan Battista Hodierna
Italian astronomer
Henri Breuil
French priest and academic (1877–1961)
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Albertus de Saxonia
German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
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Lorenzo Mascheroni
Italian mathematician and poet (1750–1800)
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Vitello
thumb|Cover of Vitellonis Thuringopoloni opticae libri decem (Ten Books of Optics by the Thuringo-Pole Witelo) Vitello (; ; – 1280/1314) was a Polish friar, scientist, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland.
Ismaël Bullialdus
French astronomer
George Mary Searle
American astronomer (1839-1918)
Johannes de Sacrobosco
English astronomer and mathematician
Jean-Antoine Nollet
French clergyman and physicist (1700-1770)
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János Vitéz
Hungarian archbishop (1408-1472)
Sebastian Kneipp
German Catholic clergyman, naturopath and hydrotherapist (1821-1897)
Juan Ignacio Molina
Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer (1740-1829)
Antonio José Cavanilles
Spanish botanist (1745–1804)
Vincenzo Coronelli
Italian cartographer (1650–1718)
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Michał Heller
Polish philosopher, theologian, theoretical physicist and Roman Catholic priest
Francesco Maurolico
Italian mathematician and astronomer (*1494 – †1575)
Benedetto Castelli
Italian mathematician (*1577/78 – †1643)
Bartolomeu de Gusmão
Portuguese scientist