1452-1519
 Leonardo
Da Vinci

1473-1543
Nicolaus
Copernicus

1514-1564
Andreas
Vesalius

1564-1642
Galileu
Galilei

1571-1630
Johannes
Kepler

1578-1657
William
Harvey

1596-1650
René
Descartes

1623-1662
Blaise
Pascal

1627-1691
Robert
Boyle

1643-1727
Isaac
Newton

1656-1742
Edmund
Halley

1660-1734
Georg
Stahl

1584-1638
Pierre
Vernier

1512-1594
Gerhardus Mercator

1537-1612
Cristóvão Clavius

1546-1601
Tycho Brahe

1502-1578
Pedro Nunes

1550-1623
Francisco Sanches

1450-1522
Abraão Zacuto

Pedro Nunes, Mercator and Escher

Astrolabes

Pedro Nunes in in a country of navigators

The Nautical Ring

The Nonius of Pedro Nunes

From the Kiblah to the Loxodrome

The "Lost Link"

The Shadow Instrument

The Chilli of the Discoveries

St. Elmo's Fire

The Mandarin astronomers

1400
1700

1701
1749

1750
1849

1850
1899

1901
2001