ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: The science all-stars poster
June 3rd, 2014 // ZEN PENCILS
So I originally just planned to do a poster featuring Newton’s famous quote along with the top 10 scientists in history. As I kept reading about all these great people, I kept adding more and more characters until it spiraled into the 47 people you see above …
Gavin Aung Than gives a short blurb for each, which you can read here. And people have written in their own additions.
Here I’ve singled out just a few:
Hypatia (350-415): Dominated philosophy, mathematics and science at a time when women where not known as scholars. One of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria. An outspoken non-believer, she was brutally murdered by a mob of religious fanatics. Rachel Weisz played Hypatia in the 2009 Spanish film Agora.
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965-1040AD): Father of optics and the scientific method. Invented pinhole camera. Discovered laws of refraction. Often referred to as the first ‘true scientist’.
Johannes Gutenberg (1395-1468): Invented the the most important invention in the history of the world, the movable-type printing press, which allowed ideas and knowledge to be spread to the masses for the first time
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): Astronomer and philosopher. Passionately defended Copernicus’ heliocentric model and insisted the Bible’s astronomical teachings not be taken literally. He was sentenced to death for his efforts and burnt alive. When sentenced, he said to his judges “Perhaps your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.”
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992): Pioneering work in genetics. She was ahead of her time, with her research being largely ignored when it was published in the 1940s and 50s. Only after the discovery of DNA in the late 60s, was her work found again and celebrated.
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