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Born March 10, 1748 • Scotland
Died July 20, 1819 (aged 71)
Subjects Of Study uniformitarianism

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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Giovanni Ceva
Italian mathematician and engineer
Michel Chasles
French mathematician

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