Mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC.
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John Harrison (clocks)
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Sir John Lubbock
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Michael Faraday
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Major-General William Roy
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Person, Armed Forces, Engineering, History, Science, Scotland
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