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Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the…
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician,…
Al-Farabi was a renowned scientist and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age. He was also a…
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and…
Asia + Oceania
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Zhang Heng was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer,…
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician and autodidact. Though he had almost no formal…