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Well-Known Geometers and Their Work
| Archimedes (287 - 212 B.C.) | |
| Euclid (325 - 265 B.C.) | Euclid was one of Plato's students. His book, Elements, is one of the few truly seminal publications on mathematics, particularly geometry. It laid the foundation for geometry, amongst other branches of mathematics. |
| René Descartes (1596-1650) | |
| Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) | |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) | |
| Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) | |
| Christian Huygens (1629 - 1695) | |
| Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) | |
| Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) | |
| John Harrison (1693 - 1776) | |
| Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782) | |
| Anders Celsius (1701 - 1744) | |
| Adrien Philippe (1815 - 1894) | |
| Léon Foucault (1819 - 1868) | Famous for his Pendulum |
