Padua in the Age of Exploration
The atlas holds 4 people and 6 moments here, from 1501 to 1610. The most recorded lives are Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus and Desiderius Erasmus.
Notable people
Galileo Galilei
from 1592 to 1610
3 moments here
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…
Nicolaus Copernicus
in 1501
1 moment here
Renaissance astronomer, canon, physician, administrator, and economist whose heliocentric model placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the…
Desiderius Erasmus
in 1507
1 moment here
Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, theologian, editor, and author. Erasmus was born in the Burgundian Netherlands, educated in the Low…
Giordano Bruno
in 1591
1 moment here
Italian Renaissance philosopher, Dominican friar, writer, and cosmological theorist. Born at Nola, Bruno studied and lived in Italy, Switzerland,…
Moments
- 1501 Medical studies in Padua Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1507 Advanced Greek study in Padua Desiderius Erasmus
- 1591 Geometry lectures in Padua Giordano Bruno
- 1592 Lived and worked in Padua Galileo Galilei
- 1592 Opened his Padua professorship Galileo Galilei
- 1610 Occupied his Via dei Vignali house Galileo Galilei