Florence in the Scientific Revolution

The atlas holds 5 people and 17 moments here, from 1574 to 1642. The most recorded lives are Galileo Galilei, John Milton and Peter Paul Rubens.

Galileo Galilei
from 1574 to 1642
11 moments here
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…
John Milton
from 1638 to 1639
3 moments here
English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. This chronology follows documented residences, education, continental travel, marriages, public service,…
Peter Paul Rubens
in 1601
1 moment here
Flemish Baroque painter, designer, humanist, collector, and diplomat. Rubens was born at Siegen, spent formative years in Cologne and Antwerp, worked…
Thomas Hobbes
in 1636
1 moment here
English philosopher and political theorist, best known for Leviathan (1651). Hobbes’s documented movements include study at Oxford, European travel…
Michel de Montaigne
in 1581
1 moment here
French Renaissance writer, magistrate, diplomat, and two-term mayor of Bordeaux, best known for the Essais.…