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covery of that " modifying influence " of which Mr. 

 Spencer speaks. That discovery made clear how all 

 that had preceded it not only contributed thereto, but 

 gained a significance and value which, apart from it, 

 could not have been secured. When the relation of 

 the several parts to the whole became manifest, each 

 fell into its place like the pieces of a child's puzzle 

 map. 



Leading Men of Science. 



A. D. 800 TO A. D. 1800. 



Name. 



Geber (Djafer). 

 Avicenna (Ibu Sina). 



Averroes (Ibu 

 Roshd). 



Roger Bacon. 



Christopher Colum- 

 bus. 

 Vasco de Gama. 



Ferdinand Magel- 

 lan. 



Nicholas Coperni- 

 cus. 



Andreas Vesalius. 

 Conrad Gesner. 



Andrew Caesalpino. 



Tycho Brahe. 



Place and date 

 of birth. 



Mesopotamia, 



830. 

 Bokhara, 980, 



Spain, 1126. 



Ilchester, 12 14. 



Genoa, 1445. 



Sines, 1469. 

 (Portugal.) 

 Yille de Sabro- 



za, 1470. 

 Thorn, 1473. 

 (Prussia.) 



Brussels, 1514. 

 Zurich, 1516. 



Arezzo, 1519. 



(Tuscany.) 



Knudstrup, 



1546. 

 (Sweden.) 



Died. 



1037 



1 198 



1292 

 1506 

 1525 

 1521 

 1543 



1564 

 1565 



1603 

 1601 



Speciality. 



Earliest known Chem- 

 ist. 



Expositor of Aristotle; 

 Physician and Geol- 

 ogist. 



Translator and Com- 

 mentator of Aris- 

 totle. 



First English Experi- 

 mentalist. 



Discoverer of Amer- 

 ica, 1492. 



Sailed round the South 

 of Africa, 1497. 



Circumnavigator of 

 the Globe, 15 19. 



Discoverer of the Sun 

 as the Centre of our 

 System. 



Human Anatomist. 



Classification of 



Plants and Animals. 



Comparative Botan- 

 ist. 



Collector of Astro- 

 nomical Data. 



