William Gilbert (1544вЂ“1603) English natural philosopher.Thomas Campion (1567вЂ“1620) English composer and poet.Jan BroЕјek ( Broscius, 1585вЂ“1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician, rector of the KrakГіw Academy.Luis Barahona de Soto (1548вЂ“1595), Spanish poet admired by his contemporary, Miguel de Cervantes (1547вЂ“1616).FranГ§ois Rabelais (1483вЂ“1553) French satirist and author of The Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel.Paracelsus (1493вЂ“1541) Swiss-born botanist, alchemist, occultist.Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius 1478вЂ“1553) Italian scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist as a physician, he proposed ideas very similar to the germ theory of disease.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473вЂ“1543) was a Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist, best known for his epoch-making book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. Biernat of Lublin (1465вЂ“1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist and physician.Adam of ЕЃowicz (also known as Adamus Polonus died 1514) was a professor of medicine at Poland's KrakГіw Academy, its rector in 1510вЂ“11, royal court physician, a humanist, writer and philosopher.

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