Famous People Ancient Epoch (Earlier than 700 AD) Thales Pythagoras Democritus Plato Hypatia Socrates Aristotle Archimedes Eratosthenes Hipparchus Ptolemy Middle Ages (700 - 1400 AD) Abu Ja'faral-Khwarizmii Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Leonardo Fibonacci Renaissance (1400 - 1650 AD) Leonardo da Vinci Nicolas Copernicus Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Simon Marius Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1850 AD) Giovanni Cassini Christian Huygens Sir Isaac Newton Edmund Halley Maria Winkelmann Kirch Nicole-Reine Lepaute William Herschel Caroline Herschel Christian Doppler Charles Darwin Maria Mitchell James Clerk Maxwell Giovanni Schiaparelli Modern Era (1850 - 1950 AD) Percival Lowell Williamina Fleming Max Planck Henrietta Swan Leavitt George Hale Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Sir Arthur Eddington Robert Goddard Niels Bohr Edwin Hubble Immanuel Velikovsky Werner Heisenberg Present Day (1950 - Present) Hermann Oberth Gerard Kuiper Abe Silverstein Wernher Von Braun Evelyn Granville Carl Sagan Stephen Hawking Jocelyn Bell Burnell |