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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer

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