Isaac Newton                           Henry Cavendish
1643-1727                                 1731-1810
 

                                          
 Joseph von Fraunhofer                   Christian A. Doppler
1787-1826                                  1803-1853

                                            
  Robert W. Bunsen                            Gustav R. Kirchhoff
1811-1899                                  1824-1887

William Huggins
1824-1910
 
 
 

IS LABORATORY BASED SCIENCE SUFFICIENT FOR UNDERSTANDING NATURE?

photo credits:  History of Astronomy Project , and links therein.
                        http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html