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Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus spent his final years in a small tower at Frombork, on the Baltic coast of Royal Prussia, watching the sky with a quadrant, a triquetrum…
James VI and IJames VI and I was born on the 19th of June 1566 inside Edinburgh Castle, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
Johannes KeplerAt age six, Johannes Kepler was taken by his mother to a high place to look at the Great Comet of 1577. Three years later, in 1580, he was called outdoors to…
Martin LutherMartin Luther stood before the Diet of Worms on the 17th of April 1521, a German priest summoned to answer for his own books. The Emperor Charles V presided.
Thomas MoreThomas More climbed the scaffold at Tower Hill on the 6th of July 1535 and, finding the structure so rickety it might collapse, told the waiting official: "I…
John FoxeJohn Foxe published a book on the 20th of March 1563 that would make him, in the words of one contemporary observer, England's first literary celebrity.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon dictated his last letter from a borrowed bed in Highgate, his fingers, he wrote, so disjointed with sickness that he could not steadily hold a…
Carolus ClusiusCarolus Clusius, born Charles de l'Ecluse on the 19th of February 1526 in Arras, started life on a path toward law and ended it as the man who planted the…
ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus woke before dawn, ink already on his fingers, and on a busy day he wrote or answered as many as forty letters in his own hand.
William CamdenWilliam Camden was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551, into a city that had barely begun to reckon with its own past.
Olaus MagnusOlaus Magnus was born Olof Månsson in Linköping in October 1490, a Swedish priest who would spend most of his adult life far from Sweden, writing about it…
Andreas VesaliusAndreas Vesalius was born on the 31st of December 1514 in Brussels, and by the time he was 28 years old, he had produced a book that would upend more than a…
Conrad CeltesKonrad Bickel stood in the vineyards of Wipfeld near Schweinfurt on the 1st of February 1459. He was born into a family that expected him to become a vintner…
Joachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was born around 1522 in a castle called La Turmelière, near the town of Liré, not far from Angers. He died on the 1st of January 1560, at…
Tycho BraheTycho Brahe was born on the 14th of December 1546, into one of Denmark's most powerful noble families, and he died having mapped the sky more precisely than…
Jan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski entered the world in 1530 at Sycyna, a village near Radom within the Kingdom of Poland. He belonged to the szlachta class, the Polish…
Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.