astronomy

An ancient Greek hand-powered analog computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.

An Italian astronomer, physicist, and polymath who played a pioneering role in the Scientific Revolution.

Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360–415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, renowned as one of the last great intellectuals of the ancient world before her brutal murder by a Christian mob.

An English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who laid the foundations of classical mechanics and calculus.