World Scientists

Confucius

CONFUCIUS
(28 Sept 551 BCE-479 BCE)
Was a famous Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced East Asian life and thought.
His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationship, justice and sincerity. Confucius thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism.

Socrates

SOCRATES
(470 BCE-399 BCE)
Was an ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western Philosophy. He was born and lived in Athens, where he spent most of his time in enthusiastic pursuit of wisdom. He followed the argument in his personal reflection, and in a sustained and rigorous dialogue between friends, followers, and contemporary itinerant techers of wisdom. Later on he was known as the wisest main in all of Greece.

Plato

PLATO
(427 BCE-347 BCE)
Whose real name is believed to have been Aristocles, was an immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied.

ARCHIMEDES

(287 BCE-212 BCE)

Was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer and philosopher. Born in the seaport colony of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, what is now current day sicily. He is considered by some historians of mathematics to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, mathematicians in antiquity; Carl Friedrich Gauss considered him one of the two greatest ever (the other being Isaac Newton).

LEONARDO di ser PIERO da VINCI

(Apr 15, 1452-May 2, 1519)

da Vinci

Was a talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath: architect, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the ‘Renaissance man’, a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and a universal genius.

GALILEO GALILEI

(Feb 15,1564- Jan 8, 1642)

Galileo Galilei

Was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope, a variety of astronomical observations, the first and second laws of motion, and effective support for Copernicanism. He has been referred to as the ‘father of modern physics’, and as the ‘father of science’.

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

(Feb 19, 1473-May 24, 1543)

Was an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centred) theory of the solar system in his epochal book, De revolutionibus orbiumcoelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Torun (Thorn), in Royal Prussia, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Poland.

MICHELANGELO di LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI

(Mar 6, 1475-Feb 18,1564)

Commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, Renaissance architect and poet. While he made few forays beyond the arts, his artistic versality was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci.