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Scientists

The astronomers and physicists the archive builds a dinner around, Copernicus to Newton.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The canon and astronomer who argued that the Earth moves around the Sun, displacing humanity from the center of the cosmos.

Galileo Galilei

The physicist and astronomer who turned the telescope on the heavens and defended the motion of the Earth before the Inquisition.

Johannes Kepler

The astronomer who found the true shapes of the planetary orbits and set the heavens to mathematics.

Isaac Newton

The mathematician who united the heavens and the Earth under universal gravitation and wrote the laws of motion.