Find out more about the greatest 16th Century Philosophers, including Galileo Galilei, René Déscartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus and Thomas Hobbes.
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Francis Bacon22 January 1561, British
Philosopher
Nicolaus Copernicus19 February 1473, Polish
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
Giordano Bruno1548 AD, Italian
Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne28 February 1533, French
Philosopher
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Saint Teresa of Avila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Francisco de Vitoria1483 AD, Spanish
philosopher, writer, religious, university
Hugo Grotius10 April 1583, Dutch
Jurist
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa14 September 1486, German
Physician
Gerolamo Cardano24 September 1501, Italian
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Inventor,
Cesare Beccaria15 March 1738, Italian
Jurist
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Jean Bodin1529 AD, French
jurist, philosopher, economist, historian,
Mulla Sadra1571 AD, Iranian
philosopher, writer
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Tommaso Campanella06 September 1568, Italian
philosopher, writer, poet, astrologer
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Jacobus Arminius10 October 1560, Dutch
Theologian, University teacher
Étienne de La BoétieWang Yangming26 October 1472, Chinese
Calligrapher
Dadu Dayal1544 AD, Indian
Hindu saint
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Thomas Cajetan20 February 1469, Italian
philosopher, Catholic priest
Luis de Molina29 September 1535, Spanish
Theologian
Petrus Ramus1515 AD, French
Philosopher
Gemma Frisius09 December 1508, Dutch
Physician
Hayashi Razan1583 AD, Japanese
Philosopher
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Andrea Cesalpino06 June 1519, Italian
Physician
Matthias Flacius03 March 1520, Croatian
Theologian
Hector Boece1465 AD, Scottish
Scottish philosopher
Pietro Pomponazzi16 September 1462, Italian
Philosopher
Damião de Góis02 February 1502, Portuguese
Philosopher
William Ames1576 AD, British
Theologian
Francisco Sanches1550 AD, Spanish, Portuguese
Philosopher
Bernardino Telesio07 November 1509, Italian
Philosopher
Pierre Charron1541 AD, French
Theologian
John of St. Thomas09 June 1589, Portuguese
Philosopher
François de La Mothe Le Vayer01 August 1588, French
Writer
Alessandro Achillini20 October 1463, Italian
Philosopher
Muretus12 April 1526, French
Author
Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki1530 AD, Polish
Philosopher
Melchor Cano06 January 1509, Spanish
Theologian
Jacopo Aconcio1520 AD, Italian
Jurist
Jacques Besson1540 AD, French
Inventor
Uriel Acosta1585 AD, Portuguese
Philosopher
Battista Guarino1435 AD, Italian
Scholar
Robert Balfour1553 AD, Scottish
Philosopher
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert03 March 1582, British
Soldier
Baha' al-din al-'Amili18 February 1547, Iranian, Lebanese
islamic Scholar
Mīr Dāmād1561 AD, Iraqi
Islamic philosopher
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī26 June 1564, Indian
Islamic scholar