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Also Known As Vitello
Born 1220 • Silesia
Died After 1278
Notable Works “Perspectiva”
Subjects Of Study perspective
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
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
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
William Osler
Sir William Osler, Baronet
Canadian physician
St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Noah Webster
Noah Webster
American lexicographer
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist