Страница - 1801Страница - 1803- Bernard Palissy French potter (1510-1589).
- Sir Walter Raleigh, English navigator, statesman and courtier (1552-1618).
- Sir Francis Drake, English navigator (1539-1595).
- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French prelate, pulpit orator, author (1627-1704).
- Cornelius Jansen, Dutch theologian (1585-1638).
- BARTOLOMÉ ESTÉBAN MURILLO, Spanish painter (1618-1682).
- PAUL HARMENS REMBRANDT VAN RYN, Dutch painter (1607-1669).
- Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (1577-1640).
- DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVAY VELASQUEZ, Spanish painter (1599-1660).
- Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (1632-1723).
- HUGO GROTIUS, or De Groot, Dutch jurist (1583-1645).
- Sir Edward Coke, lord chief-justice of England (1549-1634).
- ARMAND JEAN DUPLESSIS DE RICHELIEU, cardinal and duke, French statesman (1585-1642).
- OLIVER CROMWELL, lord protector of the English commonwealth (1599-1658).
- Count Johann Tserclaes von Tilly, German general in the Thirty Years’ War (1559-1632).
- Count Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Austrian general (1583-1634).
- Duke of Marlborough (John Churchill), English general (1650-1722).
- William III. (prince of Orange), king of Great Britain, stadtholder of the Netherlands (1650-1702).
- Christina, queen of Sweden (1626-1689).
- Marten Harpertzoon van Tromp, Dutch admiral (1597-1653).
- Vicomte Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne de Turenne, marshal of France (1611-1672).
- William Penn, English Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
- Cardinal Jules, or Giulio, Mazarin, prime minister of Louis XIV. (1602-1661).
- Louis II., Prince de Conde, French general (1621-1686).
- Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden (1594-1632).
- Louis XIV. the Great, king of France (1638-1715).
- Felix Lope de Vega Carpio, Spanish poet and dramatist (1562-1635).
- Joseph Addison, English poet and essayist (1672-1719).
- John Dryden, English poet (1631-1700).
- John Bunyan, English preacher and writer (1628-1688).
- JOHN MILTON, English poet (1608-1674).
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (1600-1681).
- MOLIÉRE, real name Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French dramatist (1622-1673).
- Blaise Pascal, French author, mathematician (1623-1662).
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux French poet, satirist and critic (1636-1711).
- Jean Racine, French dramatic poet (1639-1699).
- François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, archbishop of Cambray, French prelate and
author (1651-1715).
- RENÉ DESCARTES, French philosopher, mathematician (1596-1650).
- GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNITZ, German philosopher, mathematician (1646-1716).
- JOHN LOCKE, English philosopher and theologian (1632-1704).
- BARUCH (Benedict) SPINOZA, Dutch-Jewish philosopher (1632-1677).
- Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (1588-1679).
- Blaise Pascal, French philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).
- JOHANN KEPLER, German astronomer (1571-1630).
- WILLIAM HARVEY, English anatomist and physician (1578-1657).
- Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (1564-1642).
- Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (1608-1647).
- Marcello Malpighi, Italian anatomist (1628-1694).
- Jacques, or James, Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (1654-1705).
- SIR ISAAC NEWTON, English philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727).
- Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and philosopher (1626-1692).
- Marquis Sébastien Leprestre de Vauban, French military engineer and marshal (1633-1707).
- JOHN WESLEY, English founder of Methodism (1703-1791).
- Jonathan Edwards, American theologian, metaphysician (1703-1758).
- George Whitefield, evangelist and one of the founders of Methodism (1714-1770).
- GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL, German musical composer (1685-1759).
- Philip Van Dyck, Dutch painter (1680-1752).
- Johann Sebastian Bach German composer and musician (1685-1750).
- JOHANN CHRYSOSTONUS WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, German musical composer (1756-1791).
- Joseph Haydn, German musical composer (1732-1809).
- Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (1723-1792).