Physicians through history
The atlas holds 11 people and 226 moments here, from 563 BC to 1967. The most recorded lives are The Buddha, Anton Chekhov and Che Guevara. Across the Age of Exploration and the Enlightenment.
Notable people
The Buddha
from 563 BC to 483 BC
18 moments here
Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and teacher who founded Buddhism in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain.…
Anton Chekhov
from 1860 to 1904
12 moments here
Russian playwright, short-story writer, and physician. Chekhov was born in Taganrog, studied and began his literary career in Moscow, undertook a…
Che Guevara
from 1928 to 1967
44 moments here
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine physician, Marxist revolutionary, Cuban government official, diplomat, and guerrilla commander.…
Carl Linnaeus
from 1707 to 1778
29 moments here
Swedish botanist, physician, and naturalist who formalized binomial nomenclature and devised an influential system for classifying organisms.…
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…
John Locke
from 1632 to 1704
28 moments here
English philosopher, physician, and political writer. Locke was born in Somerset, educated in London and Oxford, served Lord Shaftesbury in London,…
Avicenna
from 980 to 1037
17 moments here
Ibn Sina (Avicenna; c. 980–22 June 1037) was a Persian philosopher, physician, and court official.…
Friedrich Schiller
from 1759 to 1805
30 moments here
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher, historian, and a central figure of Weimar Classicism.…
Galen
from 129 to 169
16 moments here
Galen of Pergamon was a Greek physician, surgeon, medical author, and philosopher active in the Roman Empire.…
François Rabelais
from 1520 to 1553
11 moments here
French Renaissance writer, physician, humanist, and Catholic priest. His birth date is disputed, with scholarship placing it between 1483 and 1494;…
Averroes
from 1126 to 1182
6 moments here
Averroes, also known as Ibn Rushd, was an Andalusian jurist, physician, philosopher, and commentator on Aristotle.…
Moments
- 563 BC Born at Lumbini The Buddha
- 143 Philosophical education in Pergamon Galen
- 999 Departure from Bukhara Avicenna
- 1153 Astronomical observations in Marrakesh Averroes
- 1491 Studies at the University of Kraków Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1520 Franciscan life at Fontenay-le-Comte François Rabelais
- 1652 Christ Church residence and study John Locke
- 1727 Studies at Lund University Carl Linnaeus
- 1763 Childhood and primary schooling in Lorch Friedrich Schiller
- 1879 Move to Moscow for medical school Anton Chekhov
- 1948 Medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires Che Guevara