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French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist

Italian scientist

Dutch scientist

German scientist, satirist

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher

German zoologist and botanist

German physicist

American physician and judge

Italian physician and scientist

French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry and the father of differential geometry

British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist

Slovak philosopher, physicist and educator

Scottish physician and botanist

Polish physicist

Tyrolean physician and naturalist

Swiss mathematician

French naturalist

Spanish mathematician and botanist

Dutch botanist and author

Scottish natural historian

Danish botanist (1731-1793)

Swiss botanist

French botanist

Swedish botanist

British physician, naturalist and writer

British Army officer, artist, and naturalist

German scientist

British entomologist

Swedish physician

Russian scientist

Swedish naturalist

Scottish botanical illustrator and author

Born 1715; died 1785

Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist

Russian scientist

British chemist

Japanese pharmacologist and writer

German philosopher

Physicist, most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases