Famous scientists of the European Middle Ages.

Nicolaus Copernicus is a Polish astronomer. He concluded that the Earth revolves around the Sun and around its axis.

Giorgiano Bruno is an Italian astronomer whose scientific research has led to the conclusion that the universe is infinite.

Galileo Galilei – the inventor of the telescope, investigated the laws of falling bodies, discovered the moons of Jupiter.

Isaac Newton – created the first mirror telescope, discovered the law of universal gravitation, the laws of light propagation; developed a theory proving that nature obeys the laws of mechanics.

Francis Bacon proposed an experimental method for studying natural phenomena.

René Descartes, the author of analytic geometry, introduced the concept of magnitude into science.