Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...

Copernicus

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Copernicus, born Joseph Smalkowski, is an avant-garde musician based out of New York. He has self-published at least eight albums of spoken-word...
Pythagoras

Pythagoras

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Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great...
Aristarchus Of Samos

Aristarchus Of Samos

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Aristarchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He was the first person to present an...
Arzachel

Arzachel

male, deceased (1087)
Al-Zarqali, was a leading Arab mathematician and the foremost astronomer of his time. He flourished in Toledo in Castile, now Spain. Arzachel...
Thomas Digges

Thomas Digges

male, deceased (1595)
Thomas Digges (1546 - August 24 1595) was an English astronomer, son of Leonard Digges, inventor of the theodolite, and great populariser of...
Ibn Al-Shatir

Ibn Al-Shatir

male, deceased (1375)
Ibn al-Shatir was an Arab Islamic astronomer. He worked as "muwaqqit" (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and cons...
Erasmus Reinhold

Erasmus Reinhold

male, deceased (1553)
Erasmus Reinhold (October 22, 1511 - February 19, 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Thuringia,...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...

Leonard Digges

male, deceased (1559)
Leonard Digges (1520 - 1559), father of Thomas Digges, was a well-known mathematician and surveyor, credited with the inventions of the theodolite...