Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
Francis Bacon22 January 1561, British
Philosopher
John Locke29 August 1632, British
Father of Classical Liberalism
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Baruch Spinoza24 November 1632, Dutch
Dutch philosopher
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
William Penn14 October 1644, British
Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Montesquieu18 January 1689, French
Philosopher
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
George Berkeley12 March 1685, Irish, British
philosopher
Roger Williams21 December 1603, British, American
Theologian
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Alphonsus Liguori27 September 1696, Italian
Philisopher, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
Giambattista della Porta01 November 1535, Italian
Scholar, Polymath
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Jean-Baptiste Colbert29 August 1619, French
Economist, Politician
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Giambattista Vico23 June 1668, Italian
Philosopher
Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
Jakob Ammann12 February 1644, Swiss
Tailor
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Thomas Browne19 October 1605, British
Author
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
Lawrence of Brindisi22 July 1559, Italian
Saint
António Vieira06 February 1608, Portuguese
Diplomat
Francesco Redi18 February 1626, Italian
Physician, Naturalist, Poet, Writer, Painter,
Richard Baxter12 November 1615, British
Poet
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet27 September 1627, French
Priest, Historian, Theologian, Writer, Cleric,
Nicolas Malebranche06 August 1638, French
Philosopher, Writer, Theologian
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Richard Hooker25 March 1554, British
Theologian
Gerrard Winstanley19 October 1609, British
Religious Reformer
François Fénelon06 August 1651, French
Theologian
James Prinsep20 August 1799, British
Antiquarian
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke16 September 1678, British
Politician
Algernon Sidney15 January 1623, British
Diplomat, Politician, Writer
Yamamoto Tsunetomo11 June 1659, Japanese
Philosopher, Writer
Theodore Beza24 June 1519, Swiss, French
Theologian
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Pierre Bayle18 November 1647, French
Philosopher, Writer, University teacher,
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Tommaso Campanella06 September 1568, Italian
philosopher, writer, poet, astrologer
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist
Jeremy Taylor15 August 1613, British
Author
Samuel von Pufendorf08 January 1632, German, Swedish
Jurist, Philosopher, Historian, University
Elena Cornaro Piscopia05 June 1646, Italian
Philosopher
Bernard Mandeville15 November 1670, Dutch
Philosopher
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
William Camden02 May 1551, British
Historian
John Aubrey12 March 1626, British
Antiquary
Antoine Galland04 April 1646, French
Archaeologist
Henry Vaughan17 April 1621, Welsh
Physician, Economist, Poet, Writer
Firishta1560 AD, Indian, Iranian
Historian
Ludvig Holberg03 December 1684, Danish, Norwegian
Writer
Joseph Justus Scaliger05 August 1540, French
Scholar
John Selden16 December 1584, British
Jurist
William Stukeley07 November 1687, British
Physician
Charles Hodge27 December 1797, American
Theologian
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
John Graunt24 April 1620, British
Statistician
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Thomas Traherne10 October 1636, British
Poet
Herman Boerhaave31 December 1668
Philosopher, Botanist, Physician, Anatomist,
Jan Swammerdam12 February 1637, German, Dutch
Biologist
Josiah Child1630 AD, British
Merchant
John Tradescant the Elder1570 AD, British
Naturalist
Antoine Arnauld06 February 1612, French
Philosopher
John Florio1553 AD, British
Linguist
Mary Astell12 November 1666, British
Writer, Philosopher, Feminist
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
Richard Bentley27 January 1662, British
Theologian
Johann Kuhnau06 April 1660, German
Polymath
Isaac Casaubon18 February 1559, Swiss
Scholar
Engelbert Kaempfer16 September 1651, German
Naturalist
Ralph Cudworth1617 AD, British
Philosopher
Henry More12 October 1614, British
Philosopher
Kenelm Digby11 July 1603, British
Philosopher
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange18 December 1610, French
Historian
Georg Ernst Stahl22 October 1659, German
Chemist
John Stow1525 AD, British
Historian
Huang Zongxi24 September 1610, Chinese
Naturalist
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten1563 AD, Dutch
Merchant
Paolo Sarpi14 August 1552, Italian
Historian
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet
Juan de Mariana25 September 1536, Spanish
Priest
August Hermann Francke22 March 1663, German
Theologian
Caesar Baronius30 August 1538, Italian
Historian
José de Acosta30 September 1540, Spanish
Missionary
Philipp Spener13 January 1635, German, French
Writer
Hermann Samuel Reimarus22 December 1694, German
Philosopher