Before The 9th Century
Most important scholars known before the Macedonian Renaissance were active under the Justinian dynasty.
- Didymos or Didymus (5th-6th century) author of Geoponika
- Ioulianos or Julianus (5th-6th century) invented a water pumping system
- Anthemius of Tralles (ca. 474–before 558) mathematician and architect of Hagia Sophia
- Eutocius of Ascalon (ca. 480–ca. 540) matematician
- John Philoponus (490–570) mathematician, grammarian, theologian
- Isidore of Miletus (6th c.) mathematicist, physicist and architect of Hagia Sophia
- Leontios (died 706) emperor, astronomer, mathematician and engineer
- George of Pisidia (6th-7th century) scholar, zoologist and astronomer
- Timotheos of Gaza (6th-7th century) zoologist
- Stephen of Byzantium (6th-7th century) geographer
- Callinicus of Heliopolis (7th c.) architect; invented the Greek fire
- Stephen of Alexandria (7th c.) mathematician and astronomer
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