This is a list of scholars from the Isle of Britain. Medieval Alcuin (735-804), mathematician and scholar Walcher of Malvern, astrologer Adelard of Bath (1080–1150), mathematician, astronomer, physicist, alchemist and philosopher Robert of Chester, translator Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253), philosopher Gilbertus Anglicus (1180-1250), physician Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195–1256), mathematician and astronomer Roger Bacon (1212–1292), mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and philosopher John Peckham (1230–1292), astronomer William Ockham (1287–1347), theologian, philosopher and physicist Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336), mathematician and astronomer John Dastin (1293–1386), alchemist Thomas Bradwardine (1300–1349), mathematician, physicist, theologian and philosopher Simon Bredon (1300–1379), mathematician Richard Swineshead (1340-1354), philosopher William Heytesbury (1313-1373), philosopher John Westwyk (14th century), astronomer John Ardarne (1307–1392), physician George Ripley (1415–1490), alchemist Thomas Norton (1416–1513), alchemist
16th–17th century Emery Molyneux (1500–1598), astronomer William Gilbert (1544–1603), physician and philosopher John Gerard (1545–1612), botanist Robert Hues (1553–1632), geographer and mathematician Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher William Crabtree (1610–1644), mathematician and astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), astronomer Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), physician Lawrence Rooke (1622–1662), mathematician and astronomer Francis Willoughby (1635–1672), biologist İsaac Barrow (1640–1676), mathematician and theologian Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist: physicist, botanist, biologist, philosopher, sage, mathematician, astronomer, architect, wise, inventor İsaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, theologian, inventor Thomas Savery (1650–1715), architect, inventor an polymath John Flamsteed (1646–1719), astronomer
See also List of British innovations and discoveries History of England