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Also Known As Vitello
Born 1220 • Silesia
Died After 1278
Notable Works “Perspectiva”
Subjects Of Study perspective
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
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
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
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