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Isaac Newton

English physicist and mathematician

Paracelsus

German-Swiss physician

Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

Muslim alchemist

John Dee

English mathematician

Geber

Spanish alchemist

al-Rāzī

Persian physician

Li Shaojun

Chinese Daoist

Andreas Libavius

German chemist and physician

Berthold der Schwarze

German monk and alchemist

Roger Bacon

English philosopher and educational reformer

Jakob Böhme

German mystic

Ch’ang-ch’un

Chinese monk

Ge Hong

Chinese alchemist

Sima Chengzhen

Daoist leader