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Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Polish general and statesman
Maurice, prince of Orange
Maurice
stadholder of The Netherlands
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
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Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto
Spanish military engineer and general
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin
Flemish mathematician
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
Gribeauval 12-pounder cannon
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
French officer and engineer
Jean-Victor Poncelet, detail of a lithograph by Patout, 1849.
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French mathematician
John By: Rideau Canal
John By
British engineer
Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
Dutch engineer
George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals
American engineer
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Sir Andrew Clarke
British engineer and politician
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Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
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Henri-Alexis Brialmont
Belgian engineer
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Abraham de Fabert
marshal of France
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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer