Who are they? How were they chosen?
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Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, Apollonius, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Fourier, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Gibbs. |
Aristotle |
Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Herschel, Adams, Hill, Poincare. |
Newton |
Democritus, Plato, Averroes, Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, Napier, Davy, Regnault, Foucault. |
Franklin |
Harvey, Linnaeus, Jenner, Agricola, Hutton, Lyell, Dana, De Beaumont, Suess, Bessemer. |
Pasteur |
Boyle, Cavendish, Priestley, Dalton, Gay Lussac, Berzelius, Wohler, Liebeg, Bunsen, Mendelejeff, Perkins, van't Hoff. |
Lavoisier |
Gilbert, Coulomb, Volta, Oersted, Ampere, Ohm, Henry, Maxwell, Morse, Siemens, Gramme, Hertz. |
Faraday |
Gutenberg, Watt, Arkwright, Whitney, Perkins, Fulton, Fairbairn, Froude, Otto, De Laval, Wright. |
Archimedes |
Ictinus, Phidias, Vitruvius, Anthemius, De Coucy, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Wren, Bulfinch. |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Guericke, Torricelli, Chladni, Huygens, Young, Arago, Fresnel, Daguerre, Kirchhoff, Rowland. |
Darwin |
Black, Rumford, Joule, Clausius, Carnot, Telford, Stephenson, De Lesseps, Rankine, Eads. |
Copernicus |
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