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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
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Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
Giuseppe Piazzi
Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
Luca Pacioli
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer
Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
Bernard Bolzano
Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
Nicolas Malebranche
French philosopher
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598–1647)
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.
Nicolas Steno
Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638–1686)
Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer
Jean Buridan
medieval philosopher (ca. 1300-1358)
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian priest, biologist and physiologist (1729-1799)
Nicole Oresme
14th century French philosopher and bishop
Pierre André Latreille
French zoologist and entomologist (1762–1833)
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher
Edme Mariotte
French physicist, chemist, botanist and priest
Gabriele Falloppio
Italian anatomist (1523-1562)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
16th century Italian theologian and astronomer
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
René Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Giovanni Battista Venturi
Italian physicist
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French astronomer (1580–1637)
Jean Picard
French astronomer
Francesco Patrizi
Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
scientific academy of the Vatican City
Vincent of Beauvais
13th century French encyclopedist
Armand David
French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist (1826–1900)
Ferdinand Verbiest
Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)
Giuseppe Mercalli
Italian volcanologist (1850-1914)
Pierre Varignon
French mathematician
Thomas Bradwardine
English cleric, mathematician and courtier (c.1300–1349)
Giovan Battista Hodierna
Italian astronomer
Henri Breuil
French priest and academic (1877–1961)
Albertus de Saxonia
German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
Lorenzo Mascheroni
Italian mathematician and poet (1750–1800)
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)
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)
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