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Born: September 15, 1254, Venice, Italy Died: January 8, 1324
| Marco Polo (1254-1324) was a Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire. He first set out at age 17 with his father and uncle, traveling overland along what later became known as the Silk Road. |  | Marco Polo is known for traveling along the Silk Road to China, where he explored and documented much of Asia not yet explored by Europeans.

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Born: April 15, 1452, Anchiano, Italy Died: May 2, 1519, Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
| Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman — the epitome of a true Renaissance man. Gifted with a curious mind and a brilliant intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work |  | While Leonardo da Vinci is best known as an artist, his work as a scientist and an inventor make him a true Renaissance man. He serves as a role model applying the scientific method to every aspect of life, including art and music.

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02/19/1473 to 05/24/1543 | Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Polish astronomer. People know Copernicus for his ideas about the sun and the earth. His main idea was that our world is heliocentric (helios = sun).
|  | Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) was a Polish astronomer who is most famous for his contribution in establishing the heliocentric nature of the Solar System. His theory led to the Copernican Revolution , which is considered as the launching point of modern astronomy and the Scientific Revolution.

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Born: 1483, Urbino, Italy Died: April 6, 1520, Rome, Italy
| Raphael, Italian in full Raffaello Sanzio or Raffaello Santi, (born April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]—died April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. |  | Why is Raphael so important? Raphael was one of the most talented painters of the Italian Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. He was also a popular architect during his lifetime.

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01/22/1561 to 04/09/1626 | Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. |  | Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.

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02/25/1564 to 01/08/1642 | Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath. Galileo was originally going to be a doctor but became a tutor instead. He was a professor of mathematics and natural science in Padua and Pisa .
|  | Galileo is the first known person who studied the skies in detail with a telescope. He made numerous significant discoveries in astronomy including the Phases of Venus and the four largest moons of Jupiter. His contributions to science include the Galilean Invariance and discovery of Isochronism in pendulums.

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04/26/1564 to 04/23/1616 | William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He wrote 39 plays (with about half of them considered comedies) and two long poems in his lifetime. He lived in Stratford -upon-Avon, in Warwickshire , England.
|  | William Shakespeare can be precisely named as the father of English Drama. He wrote 29 all-time best plays, 154 sonnets, and two long poems. His contribution to World Literature is highly remarkable, and perhaps unmatched.

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04/01/1578 to 06/03/1657 | William Harvey (priest) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Wigan Harvey (17 January 1810 – 7 May 1883) was an English cleric and academic. Born at Great Stanmore, he was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
|  | William Harvey, (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone , Kent, England—died June 3, 1657, London), English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. Education and appointment as Lumleian lecturer

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Born: January 25, 1627, Lismore, Ireland Died: December 31, 1691, London, United Kingdom
| Known for his law of gases, Boyle was a 17th-century pioneer of modern chemistry. Every general-chemistry student learns of Robert Boyle (1627–1691) as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa—the famous Boyle's law |  | Known for his law of gases, Boyle was a 17th-century pioneer of modern chemistry. Every general-chemistry student learns of Robert Boyle (1627–1691) as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa—the famous Boyle's law

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January 4, 1643-March 31, 1727 | Who Was Isaac Newton? Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution. |  | Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution.