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Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)
philosopher, poet, employee of a public institution, mathematician, physicist, literary theorist
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
Patrick Moore (1923-2012)
television presenter, astronomer, autobiographer, film editor, composer, aircraft pilot
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
naturalist, astrologer, protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer, musicologist, physicist, cosmologist, music theorist, philosopher, teacher, inventor
- University of Tübingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
philosopher, mathematician, physicist, musicologist, translator, music theorist, encyclopédistes, engineer, astronomer, lexicographer, intellectual
- University of Paris, Collège des Quatre-Nations
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)
philosopher, physicist, poet, essayist, lady-in-waiting
Pavel Florensky (1882-1937)
mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, engineer, priest, poet
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)
astronomer, balloonist
- seminary of Langres, Association polytechnique
Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)
astronomer, politician, mathematician, mayor
- French Academy of Sciences