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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, French moralist, statistician
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
mathematician, physicist, music theorist, astronomer, scientist, inventor, executive, geographer
- University of Basel
Giordano Bruno (1547-1600)
astronomer, philosopher, poet, astrologer, mathematician, Latin Catholic priest
- University of Naples Federico II
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011)
physicist, painter, essayist, poet, teacher
- National University of La Plata, Harvard University
Mario Bunge (1919-2020)
physicist, philosopher, essayist, sociologist, epistemologist, critic, translator
- National University of La Plata
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher of science, topologist, polymath
- Mines ParisTech, Science Faculty of Paris
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
linguist, mathematician, egyptologist, musicologist, music theorist, polymath, inventor, Catholic priest, astronomer, biologist, archaeologist, physicist, geologist, volcanologist, museologist, composer, historian, naturalist, orientalist, Catholic theologian, philosopher
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Gymnasium Theodorianum
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (1221-1284)
astronomer, ruler, composer, poet, historian, jurist