Scientists of the Renaissance

The atlas holds 12 people and 147 moments here, from 1300 to 1600. The most recorded lives are Giordano Bruno, Leonardo da Vinci and Dante Alighieri.

Notable people

  1. Giordano Bruno

    from 1548 to 1600

    31 moments here

    Italian Renaissance philosopher, Dominican friar, writer, and cosmological theorist. Born at Nola, Bruno studied and lived in Italy, Switzerland,…

  2. Leonardo da Vinci

    from 1452 to 1519

    27 moments here

    Italian Renaissance painter, draftsman, engineer, architect, anatomist, and natural philosopher.…

  3. Dante Alighieri

    from 1300 to 1321

    19 moments here

    Florentine poet, prose writer, philosopher, and statesman whose Divine Comedy became a foundational work of Italian and European literature.…

  4. Geoffrey Chaucer

    from 1359 to 1400

    16 moments here

    English poet, courtier, diplomat, and civil servant, best known for The Canterbury Tales. His documented career included military service in France,…

  5. Nicolaus Copernicus

    from 1473 to 1543

    15 moments here

    Renaissance astronomer, canon, physician, administrator, and economist whose heliocentric model placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the…

  6. Galileo Galilei

    from 1564 to 1592

    10 moments here

    Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…

  7. Ibn Battuta

    from 1333 to 1350

    10 moments here

    Maghrebi Muslim jurist, traveller, explorer, and author from Tangier. Between 1325 and 1354 he journeyed through North and East Africa, the Middle…

  8. Johannes Kepler

    from 1571 to 1600

    8 moments here

    German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher, and music theorist. Kepler’s documented life moved from Württemberg schooling…

  9. Francis Bacon

    from 1561 to 1600

    6 moments here

    English philosopher, lawyer, statesman, Attorney General, and Lord Chancellor under James I.…

  10. René Descartes

    in 1596

    2 moments here

    French philosopher, mathematician, and natural philosopher whose methodic doubt, mind-body distinction, analytic techniques, and mechanical account…

  11. Ibn Khaldun

    from 1362 to 1364

    2 moments here

    Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was a Tunis-born historian, jurist, political official, teacher, and author of the Muqaddimah.…

  12. Thomas Hobbes

    in 1588

    1 moment here

    English philosopher and political theorist, best known for Leviathan (1651). Hobbes’s documented movements include study at Oxford, European travel…

Moments

  1. 1300 Observed Jubilee crowds in Rome Dante Alighieri
  2. 1300 Embassy to San Gimignano Dante Alighieri
  3. 1300 Resided in the Palazzo della Signoria as prior Dante Alighieri
  4. 1301 Joined the embassy to Pope Boniface VIII Dante Alighieri
  5. 1302 Received news of exile in Siena Dante Alighieri
  6. 1302 Met fellow exiles at San Godenzo Dante Alighieri
  7. 1303 Guest of Bartolomeo della Scala in Verona Dante Alighieri
  8. 1303 Served with Scarpetta Ordelaffi in Forlì Dante Alighieri
  9. 1306 Concluded the Peace of Castelnuovo Dante Alighieri
  10. 1306 Received Malaspina authority in Sarzana Dante Alighieri
  11. 1307 Stayed with the Guidi in Casentino Dante Alighieri
  12. 1308 Stayed in Lucca Dante Alighieri
  13. 1311 Documented at Poppi Castle Dante Alighieri
  14. 1312 Returned to Verona under Cangrande Dante Alighieri
  15. 1314 Possible later return to Lucca Dante Alighieri
  16. 1319 Settled at Guido Novello's court in Ravenna Dante Alighieri
  17. 1321 Undertook an embassy to Venice Dante Alighieri
  18. 1321 Died in Ravenna Dante Alighieri
  19. 1321 Returned ill to Ravenna Dante Alighieri
  20. 1333 Meets the emir at Azov Ibn Battuta
  21. 1333 Stays in Kaffa Ibn Battuta
  22. 1333 Visits Qiram Ibn Battuta
  23. 1349 Detours to Sardinia Ibn Battuta
  24. 1350 Lands at Gibraltar Ibn Battuta
  25. 1350 Passes through Marbella Ibn Battuta
  26. 1350 Reaches Málaga Ibn Battuta
  27. 1350 Shelters at Sohail Castle Ibn Battuta
  28. 1350 Stays in Ronda Ibn Battuta
  29. 1350 Visits Granada Ibn Battuta
  30. 1359 English campaign in France Geoffrey Chaucer
  31. 1360 Captured at the siege of Reims Geoffrey Chaucer
  32. 1362 Arrival in Nasrid Granada Ibn Khaldun
  33. 1364 Diplomatic visit to Seville Ibn Khaldun
  34. 1369 Campaigning in France Geoffrey Chaucer
  35. 1370 Military expedition to Picardy Geoffrey Chaucer
  36. 1373 Diplomatic visit to Florence Geoffrey Chaucer
  37. 1373 Diplomatic visit to Genoa Geoffrey Chaucer
  38. 1374 Residence above Aldgate Geoffrey Chaucer
  39. 1377 Peace mission to Montreuil-sur-Mer Geoffrey Chaucer
  40. 1377 Peace mission to Paris Geoffrey Chaucer
  41. 1377 Secret mission in Flanders Geoffrey Chaucer
  42. 1378 Envoy to the Visconti in Milan Geoffrey Chaucer
  43. 1386 Member of the Wonderful Parliament Geoffrey Chaucer
  44. 1390 Robbed at Hatcham Geoffrey Chaucer
  45. 1390 Robbed at Westminster Geoffrey Chaucer
  46. 1399 Residence in the Westminster Abbey close Geoffrey Chaucer
  47. 1400 Death in London Geoffrey Chaucer
  48. 1452 Born near Vinci Leonardo da Vinci
  49. 1469 Moves to Florence Leonardo da Vinci
  50. 1473 Birth in Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus

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