a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists

a German physician and astronomer.

a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group theory

a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain,

a French novelist, poet, short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural.

an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography