Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
physicist, classical mechanics, laws of motion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, celestial mechanics, sir isaac newton…scientificrevolution
Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, ma...
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

male, deceased (1626)
tudor, English, scientific method, from WestmInster, Baconian method, methodology…scientificrevolution, scientific
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and...
Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
physics, scientificrevolution, physicist, From Tuscany, Italian, Astronomer
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…scientificrevolution
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
René Descartes

René Descartes

male, deceased (1650)
mathematician, philosopher, stockholm, died 11.2.1650, died in stockholm, born 31.3.1596…scientificrevolution
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650), also known as "Renatus Cartesius" (latinized form), was a highly influential French p...
Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke

male, deceased (1703)
Professor of Geometry, Discovered Great Red Spot of Jupiter, Observed comets, Tiny Drawings, Curator of Experiments, Quarrelled with Isaac Newton…scientificrevolution
Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both ex...
Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

male, deceased (1695)
law of motion, Newton's laws of motion, Dutch Christian, New Latin author, Dutch music theorist, titan…scientificrevolution
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English : ; in Dutch:) (April 14, 1629 - July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born...
Carolyn Merchant

Carolyn Merchant

female
environmental history, Rochester, enlightenment, organism, From Rochester, New York, cosmology…scientificrevolution
Carolyn Merchant (born circa 1936 in Rochester, New York, USA) is an American ecofeminist philosopher most famous for her theory on the 'Death of...

John Henry

male
historian, university of edinburgh, British, The Zilsel Thesis, Atomism, scientificrevolution
John Henry is a Historian of Science in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh associated with the Strong Programme. He has...
Richard S. Westfall

Richard S. Westfall

male, deceased (1996)
professor, historian, Biographer, sir isaac newton, 17th century, Historian of science…scientificrevolution
Richard S. Westfall (April 22, 1924-August 21, 1996) was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his...