34 TOP or NOTEWORTHY RENAISSANCE SCIENTISTS
From the 15th, 16th & 17th centuries, all born between the years 1400 and 1700
To qualify or be selected for this hallowed list, candidates had to be
both meritorious and outstanding in one or more of the following
major scientific fields:
A - Astronomy
C - Chemistry
E - Engineering
I - Inventions
M - Mathematics
P - Physics
S - Science in General
Initials of 'Fields' of interest are listed in the table below for each scientist.
Other areas like art, biology, medicine, music, philosophy,
statecraft or writing ALONE are not included here.
The column below labeled 'Google Counts' is the number of hits
shown when the person's name is searched for. For Example
"Isaac Newton" shows "About 33,400,000 results (0.60 seconds)".
Your search results may vary. Table sorted by descending counts.
Google
Counts
Name
Born - Died Age
Country Field(s)
| 81,300,000 | Leonardo da Vinci | (1452 - 1519) | 67 | Italian | E I S |
| 33,400,000 | Sir Isaac Newton | (1643 - 1727) | 84 | British | A C M P S |
| 20,000,000 | Galileo Galilei | (1564 - 1642) | 78 | Italian | A E P S |
| 14,200,000 | Francis Bacon | (1561 - 1626) | 65 | British | S |
| 12,700,000 | Blaise Pascal | (1623 - 1662) | 39 | French | I M P |
| 6,670,000 | Johannes Kepler | (1571 - 1630) | 59 | German | A M S |
| 6,200,000 | A.P. Van Leeuwenhoek | (1632 - 1723) | 91 | Dutch | I S |
| 5,200,000 | Otto von Guericke | (1602 - 1686) | 84 | German | I P S |
| 2,650,000 | Tycho Brahe | (1546 - 1601) | 55 | Danish | A S |
| 2,520,000 | Sir Christopher Wren | (1632 - 1723) | 91 | British | A M P |
| 2,110,000 | Nicolaus Copernicus | (1473 - 1543) | 70 | Polish | A M |
| 1,910,000 | Rene Descartes | (1596 - 1650) | 54 | French | M P S |
| 1,890,000 | John Dee | (1527 - 1608) | 81 | British | A C M |
| 1,400,000 | Robert Boyle | (1627 - 1691) | 64 | British | C P S |
| 1,380,000 | Robert Hooke | (1635 - 1703) | 68 | British | P S |
| 1,230,000 | Evangelista Torricelli | (1608 - 1647) | 39 | Italian | I M P |
| 604,000 | Christian Huygens | (1629 - 1695) | 66 | Dutch | A I M P S |
| 542,000 | Pierre de Fermat | (1607 - 1665) | 58 | French | M |
| 403,000 | John Napier | (1550 - 1617) | 67 | Scottish | A M P |
| 366,000 | Gottfried W. Leibniz | (1646 - 1716) | 70 | German | E M P S |
| 356,000 | John Wallis | (1616 - 1703) | 87 | British | M |
| 342,000 | Daniel Bernoulli | (1700 - 1782) | 82 | Swiss | M P S |
| 276,000 | Gerolamo Cardano | (1501 - 1576) | 75 | Italian | A C M P S |
| 263,000 | Johan de Witt | (1625 - 1672) | 47 | Dutch | M |
| 242,000 | Edmund Halley | (1656 - 1742) | 86 | British | A M P |
| 196,000 | Brook Taylor | (1685 - 1731) | 46 | British | M |
| 187,000 | Johann Bernoulli | (1667 - 1748) | 81 | Swiss | M |
| 144,000 | John Flamsteed | (1646 - 1719) | 73 | British | A |
| 113,000 | Abraham De Moivre | (1667 - 1754) | 87 | French | M |
| 112,000 | Jacob Bernoulli | (1646 - 1705) | 59 | Swiss | M |
| 66,000 | Georg Ernst Stahl | (1659 - 1734) | 75 | German | C |
| 62,000 | Daniel G. Fahrenheit | (1686 - 1736) | 50 | Polish | I P S |
| 60,000 | Giovanni D. Cassini | (1625 - 1712) | 87 | Italian | A E M |
| 15,000 | Ole C. Romer | (1644 - 1710) | 66 | Danish | A I |
Average age at death = 69 years.
The Top 34 Scientists are from
10 Western European Nations
| British | 9 |
| Italian | 5 |
| French | 4 |
| German | 4 |
| Dutch | 3 |
| Swiss | 3 |
| Danish | 2 |
| Polish | 2 |
| Irish | 1 |
| Scottish | 1 |
Note: The number shown under 'Google Counts' is more of a reflection
of world popularity rather than an indicator of accomplishments.
However, if one accomplished more they would be more widely known.
By JCShook 5/29/2022