Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists

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2008

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9781593398460

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The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler.
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Introduction: Learning from the Lessons of History John Gribbin.
1: Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c. 546 BC).
2: Pythagoras (c. 580–c. 500 BC).
3: Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 375 BC).
4: Plato (c. 428–c. 348 BC).
5: Aristotle (384–322 BC).
6: Euclid (Flourished c. 300 BC).
7: Archimedes (c. 285–c. 212 BC).
8: Pliny the Elder (Ad 23–79).
9: Ptolemy (c. Ad 100–c. 170).
10: Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c. 216).
11: Al-khwarizmi (c. 780–c. 850).
12: Avicenna (980–1037).
13: Roger Bacon (c. 1220–1292).
14: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519).
15: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).
16: Paracelsus (1493–1541).
17: Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564).
18: Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).
19: Giordano Bruno (1548–1600).
20: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626).
21: Galileo Galilei (1564–1642).
22: Johannes Kepler (1571–1630).
23: William Harvey (1578–1657).
24: René Descartes (1596–1650).
25: Robert Boyle (1627–1691) and Robert Hooke (1635–1703).
26: John Ray (1627–1705).
27: Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727).
28: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
29: Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).
30: Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778).
31: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788).
32: Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717–1783).
33: Henry Cavendish (1731–1810).
34: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804).
35: James Watt (1736–1819).
36: Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) and Conte Alessandro Volta (1745–1827).
37: Sir William Herschel (1738–1822) and Caroline Herschel (1750–1848).
38: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794).
39: Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749–1827).
40: Edward Jenner (1749–1823).
41: Georges, Baron Cuvier (1769–1832).
42: Alexander von Humbol
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