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Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei was born in Pisa on the 15th of February 1564, the first of six children of a leading lutenist. He died on the 8th of January 1642, aged 77…
René DescartesRené Descartes opened his treatise on emotions, the Passions of the Soul, with a startling promise. He would write on the topic, he said, "as if no one had…
John MiltonJohn Milton sold the rights to one of the greatest poems in the English language for five pounds. On the 27th of April 1667, he handed Paradise Lost to the…
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.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza was born on the 24th of November 1632 into an Amsterdam family that had survived the Portuguese Inquisition by hiding their faith for…
Jean RacineJean Racine was born on the 22nd of December 1639 in La Ferté-Milon, a small town in the province of Picardy in northern France, and he would die sixty years…
Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton said his mother told him he was so small at birth that he could have fit inside a quart mug. He was born prematurely on Christmas Day, the…
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…
Christiaan HuygensChristiaan Huygens was born on the 14th of April 1629 into one of the most connected families in the Dutch Republic. His father, Constantijn, exchanged…
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…
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.
Pierre GassendiPierre Gassendi was born on the 22nd of January 1592 in a village called Champtercier, near Digne, in the south of France.
Ole WormOle Worm died on the 31st of August 1654 in Copenhagen, struck down by the same bubonic plague he had stayed behind to fight.