Ptolemy - Greco-Roman Empire, Egypt - born in the year 100 - geocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus - Prussia (modern day Poland), mathematician who formulated the sun was the center of the universe - heliocentric theory
Johannes Kepler - German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer; laws of planetary motion (motion of planets around the sun); elliptical orbits
Galileo - Italian, used the telescope to further prove Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory; known as the Father of Astronomy
Isaac Newton - English; Principia - laws of motion and gravity
Francis Bacon - English; developed the scientific method
William Harvey - English; a physician who was the first to detail the human circulatory system