Physician Writer - 16th Century

16th Century

• Luis Barahona de Soto (1548–1595) Spanish poet admired by Cervantes
• Jan Brożek (Broscius, 1585–1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician, rector of the Kraków Academy
• Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer and poet
• William Gilbert (1544–1603) English natural philosopher
• Jacques Grévin (c. 1539–1570) French dramatist
• Arthur Johnston (1587–1641) Scottish poet
• Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625) English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; best remembered as the author of Rosalynde, on which Shakespeare based As You Like It
• Sebastian Petrycy of Pilzno (1554–1626) was a Polish philosopher and physician.
• Michael Servetus (1511–53), Spanish theologian, cartographer, humanist; the first European to describe pulmonary circulation; burned at the stake, for his religious views, in John Calvin's Geneva.
• Andreas Vesalius (1514–64) Belgian anatomist, author of De humani corporis fabrica