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Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist / 1643 - 1727
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his work on gravity, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
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Benjamin Banneker
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Benjamin Banneker
Astronomer / 1731 - 1806
Benjamin Banneker was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor, and writer.
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Galileo
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Galileo
Astronomer / 1564 - 1642
Galileo was an Italian scientist who led the Scientific Revolution, proposing the then controversial idea of Copernicanism, the idea that earth orbits the sun.
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Nicolas Copernicus
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Nicolas Copernicus
Astronomer / 1473 - 1543
Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who proposed that the planets rotate around the Sun and not vice versa. -
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Astronomer / 1934 - 1996
Carl Sagan was one of the most well-known scientists during the 1970s and ‘80s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence and advocated for nuclear disarmament. -
Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke
Philosopher, Scholar, Mathematician, Architect, Illustrator, Astronomer, Physicist, Academic Author / 1635 - 1703
Robert Hooke was an English philosopher, mathematician and architect who discovered the law of elasticity, now known as Hooke's law.
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