Flashcards: 16th-century astrologers

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Zabarella (5 September 1533 – 15 October 1589) was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician.

Julius Caesar Scaliger (/ˈskælədʒər/; April 23, 1484 – October 21, 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France.

Martin Chemnitz (November 9, 1522 – April 8, 1586) was an eminent second-generation German Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor.

Philip Melanchthon (Philippus Melanchthon) (/məˈlæŋkθən/; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560), born Philipp Schwartzerdt (German: [ˈʃvaɐ̯ts.eːɐt]), was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.

Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560 – 9 September 1605), or Dr.

Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and occultist.

Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518) was an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia.

Bonet de Lattes was a Jewish physician and astrologer.

Mestre João Faras, better known simply as Mestre João ('Master John"), was an astrologer, astronomer, physician and surgeon of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, and wrote a famous letter identifying the Southern Cross constellation.

Jan Franco (active 1586–1611) was a physician, mathematician and astronomer who compiled almanacs.

António Gonçalves Annes Bandarra or Gonçalo Annes Bandarra (Trancoso, 1500 – Trancoso, 1556) was a Portuguese writer.

Nathaniel Torporley (1564–1632) was an English clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer.

Christophe de Cattan (also Christofe Cattan, Christopher Cattan) was a reputed astrologer of the sixteenth century.