Contents

The Ancients

Euclid

Archimedes

Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy

The Middle Ages

The Medieval Arab Scientists

The Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci

Nicolas Copernicus

Andreas Vesalius

Galileo Galilei

The Seventeenth Century

Christiaan Huygens

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Robert Hooke

Sir Isaac Newton

The Eighteenth Century

Carolus Linnaeus

James Hutton

Antoine Lavoisier

John Dalton

The Nineteenth Century

Michael Faraday

Charles Babbage

Charles Darwin

Louis Pasteur

Gregor Mendel

Dmitri Mendeleyev

James Clerk Maxwell

The Twentieth Century

Max Planck

Marie Curie

Ernest Rutherford

Albert Einstein

Alfred Wegener

Niels Bohr

Edwin Hubble

Werner Heisenberg

Linus Pauling

The DNA Team: Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin

Stephen Hawking