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276 BCE
Eratosthenes's Birth
Born in Cyrene. He was a greek polymath (mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist). He proposes the first measurement of the Earth's circumference. -
85 BCE
Ptolemy's Birth
Born in Egypt. He was an astronomer, geographer, and an astrologist. -
Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus's BIrth
Born in Torun, Poland. He was an astronomer. He came up with the heliocentric view and created a model for it. -
Dec 14, 1546
Brahe's Birth
Born in Knutstorp Castle, Sweden. He was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer. He was well known for his accurate astronomical observations. -
Jan 22, 1561
Bacon's Birth
Born in York House, Strand. He was an english philosopher and was the statesman as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He created the scientific method. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo's Birth
Born in Pisa, Italy. He used the telescopes to create a claim about the massive moons of Jupiter and expanded the knowledge about the geocentric view -
Dec 27, 1571
Kepler's Birth
Born in Weil der Stadt, Germany. He was an astronomer, mathematician and astrologist. He was best known for his laws of planetary motion and his books. -
Descartes's Birth
Born in Descartes, France. He was a french philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. He was famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra. -
Locke's Birth
Born in Wrington, United Kingdom. He was an English philosopher and physician. He is well known for the creation of foundational contributions to modern theories of limited, liberal government. -
Newton's Birth
Born in United Kingdom. He was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and a theologian. He discovered gravity -
Mendeleev's Birth
Born in Russia. He was a chemist and an inventor. He created the periodic table of elements and founded the periodic law. -
Curie's Birth
Born in Poland. She was a chemist and a physicist. She discovered radium and polonium. She is the first women to receive the Nobel prize and is the only person to get two Nobel prizes. -
Leavitt's Birth
Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. She was an astronomer. She discovered the link between the brightness of stars and time. -
Wegener's Birth
Born in Berlin, Germany. He was a german polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. He was well known for his theory of the Pangaea with the continental drift. -
Hubble's Birth
Born in Missouri. He was an astronomer. He discovered the idea of how the Universe was expanding using red shifts -
Hess's Birth
Born in New York, New York. He was a geologist and a US navy officer in WWII. He was well known for his discovery of sea-floor spreading.
