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Also Known As Aelianus Tacticus
Flourished c.101 - c.150
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech educator
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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
William Osler
Sir William Osler, Baronet
Canadian physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Noah Webster
Noah Webster
American lexicographer
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Niẓām al-Mulk
Seljuq vizier
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Dow, Arthur Wesley: Lily
Arthur Wesley Dow
American artist and educator
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
United States statesman and physician