1. Short biography Job or activity
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in He was a renaissance
1473. He was a renaissance astronomer.
astronomer and the person who
Nicolaus Copernicus
formulated the heliocentric theory.
He died in 1543.
He was a Spanish theologian, He was a humanist, physician…
physician, cartographer and humanist. He was interested to
He was born in 1511 and died in 1553. astronomy, meteorology,
Miguel Servet
He’s from Villanueva de Sigena. He geography, medicine… He’s
died in Ginebra. important because he did a
project about the pulmonary
circulation.
Erasmus was born in 1466 and he died Erasmus was a Dutch
in 1536. He was an early proponent of renaissance humanist, catholic
religious toleration. priest, social critic, teacher and
Erasmo de Rotterdam
theologian.
1478 -1535. He was an important He was an English lawyer, social
councilor of Henry VIII. philosopher, author, statesman,
and renaissance humanist.
Thomas Moro
He was born in Valencia in 1492 and He was chancellor of Henry VIII.
died in Bruges in 1540 He was a humanist and a
philosopher.
Juan Luis Vives
He was a Flemish anatomist, and a He’s the founder of modern
politician. human anatomy.
Andrea Vesalius