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List of German scientists by century

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This is a list of German scientists.

Middle Ages Rabanus Maurus (780-856), writer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), physician and theologian Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280), alchemist and chemist, classified minerals in a systematic way and discovered the element arsenic Theodoric of Freiberg (1250-1311), physicist and theologian Gottfried von Hagenau (1270-1325), physician John of Saxony, astronomer Albert of Saxony (1320-1390), mathematician, physicist and philosopher. He developed the theory of assumption Henry of Langenstein (1325-1397), He provided a revival of Eudoxus' cosmological model of concentric spheres Johannes Gutenberg (1396-1468), was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg invented the printing press, which later spread across the world. His work led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It also had a direct impact on the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements, as all of them have been described as "unthinkable" without Gutenberg's invention Johannes von Gmunden (1380-1442), mathematician and astronomer Regiomontanus (1436-1476), mathematician Nicolaus Germanus (1420-1490), geographer Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), philosopher Johannes Widmann (1460-1498), mathematician, The + and - symbols first appeared in print in his book Mercantile Arithmetic or Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft published in Leipzig in 1489 in reference to surpluses and deficits in business problems. Henricus Martellus Germanus, geographer Jacob Ziegler, scholar and geographer

16th century Eucharius Rösslin (1470-1526), was a German physician who in 1513 authored a book about childbirth called Der Rosengarten (The Rose Garden), which became a standard medical text for midwives. Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528), Bilinen ilk yazıcı tip örneği kitabını üretmesiyle ünlü Matbaacı Michael Stifel (1487-1567), mathematician, theologian, He was an Augustinian who was one of the first supporters of Martin Luther. Later in mathematics professor at the University of Jena Nicholas Kratzer (1487-1550), mathematician, astronomer and horologist Adam Ries (1492-1559), mathematician Christoph Rudolff (1499-1545), mathematician, He was a German mathematician who was the author of the first German textbook on algebra Jacob Milich (1501-1559), mathematician, physician and astronomer, The crater Milichius on the Moon is named after him Petrus Apianus (1495-1552), mathematician, geographer, astronomer Philipp Apian (1531-1589), He was a German mathematician and doctor. Son of Petrus Apianus (1495–1552), he is also known as the cartographer of Bavaria. Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), philologist Adam Lonicer, Adamus Lonicerus (10 October 1528 – 29 May 1586) was a German botanist best known for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's medicinal plant Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), historian and humanist, He coined the term Byzantium Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598), humanist Nicolaus Reimers (1551-1600), astronomer, mathematician Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561-1613), mathematician, The scientist who first coined the term trigonometry Georg Limnaeus (1554-1611), mathematician and astronomer Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610), mathematician

17th century Michael Maestlin (1550-1631), mathematician, astronomer, Kepler's mentor Johannes Remus Quietanus, astronomer Paul Hermann (1645-1696), botanist Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), mathematician and astronomer, He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, influencing among others Isaac Newton, providing one of the foundations for his theory of universal gravitation. Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1670), alchemist and chemist, His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him: "Glauber's salt". Nicholas Mercator (1620-1687), mathematician Adam Olearius (1599-1671), geographer Hennig Brand (1630-1682), He discovered the chemical element phosphorus. Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), alchemist, He developed the theory of phlogiston David Origanus, astronomer Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. Leibniz has been called the "last universal genius" due to his knowledge and skills in different fields and because such people became less common during the Industrial Revolution and spread of specialized labor after his lifetime. Otto Von Guericke (1602-1686), physicist, He performed the Magdeburg hemispheres experiment. Johann Sperling (1603-1658), was a physician, zoologist and physicist, deacon and Rector of the University of Wittenberg Gaspar Schott (1608-1666), specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) Johann Sturm (1635-1703), philosopher Johann Schröder (1600-1664), pharmologist Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721), professor of surgery, botany, theoretical and practical medicine, and chemistry. Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734), chemist and natural philosophy Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), He was a German naturalist, physician, explorer and writer

18th century Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721), surgery Johann Juncker (1679–1759), Juncker was a leader in the Pietist reform movement as it applied to medicine Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), physicist and engineer Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709–1782), In 1747, Marggraf announced his discovery of sugar in beets and devised a method using alcohol to extract it Johann Daniel Titius (1729–1796), physicist Franz Carl Achard (1753–1821), chemist, geoscientist, physicist, and biologist. His principal discovery was the production of sugar from sugar beets

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