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title: XV and XVI Centuries
description: Events and thinkers of the history of Western philosophy from the
  15th to 16th century.
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<table border="0" style="background-image: url(../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglos_XV_y_XVI/_files/vitruvian.jpg.webp); height: 672px; text-align: left;" width="600"><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">&#160;Oh! </td><a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_4.png.webp"></a><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;"><em>philosophers</em></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;"><em>historical events</em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1400</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1450</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><i><i>Pleon Gemisset (1355-1450)</i><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="../334057"><em><i><em></em></i></em>Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)<i></i></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i>&#10;</p></i></em></td><i></i><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><i><i>1418 Council of Constance</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1419 Joan of Arc</i><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em>1445 Gutemberg Printing Press&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1450</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1500</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em></em>&#10;<em></em><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em>Bessarion (1403-1472)&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p><em><i><i>Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)</i></i></em></p>&#10;<p><em><i><i><a href="../334541">Machivelo (1459-1530)</a></i></i></em></p>&#10;<p><em><i><i>Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)</i></i></em></p>&#10;<ul>&#10;<li>Oh! <a href="../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglos_XV_y_XVI/_files/copernicus2-1.jpg.webp"></a></li>&#10;</ul>&#10;<p><em><i><i>Erasmo (1466-1536)</i></i></em></p>&#10;<p><em><i><i><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368333">Copernicus (1473-1543)</a></i></i></em></p>&#10;<p><em></em><a href="https://libros.idoneos.com/filosofia/tomas_moro">Thomas Moro (1478-1535)</a>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><i><i>1453 End of the 100 Years War</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1453 Fall of Constantinople</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1479 Catholic Kings</i><p></p>&#10;<p></p></i></em><em><i><i>1492 Christopher Columbus arrives in America</i><p></p>&#10;<p><em></em><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/358605">1519 Leonardo Da Vinci</a>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p>-</p><div markdown="1" class="orangebox">Oh! <a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp"><em><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento"></a></em></a><p></p>&#10;<p><em><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento"><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento">To merge on</a> <a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento">Renaissance humanism</a> </a> </em></p>&#10;<p></p></div>&#10;</i></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1500</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1550</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><i></i><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368335">Paracelsus (1493 -1541)</a>&#10;<i></i><p></p>&#10;<p><em>Telesio (1508-1588)</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Cardano (1501 -1576)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><em>Pomponazzi (1462-1525)</em></p>&#10;<p><em>Caesalpine (1519-1603)</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Zabarella (1532-1589)<em><i></i></em>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p>-<em>Oh! <a href="../../d/fi/filosofia/Línea_de_tiempo/Siglos_XV_y_XVI/_files/capilla_sixtina.jpg.webp"></a></em></p>&#10;<p>-</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em><div markdown="1" class="orangebox" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/370312"><em><i></i></em>Oh! <a href="https://idoneos.com/static/images/infogr/icon_1_0.png.webp"></a><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/370312"><em><i><i></i></i></em>Deepen on the d</a> [errumbe of the Ptolemy universe&#10;] (https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/370312)</p></a></div>&#10;<i></i><p></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/370312"><em>1517 Luther</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em>1519 Charles V, Emperor</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://religioncristiana.idoneos.com/anglicanismo"><em>1531 Henry VII, Anglican Church</em></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento/el_renacimiento_en_su_apogeo#miguel_angel_bounarroti_(1475-1564">1536 Michelangelo paints the Sixtin Chapel</a>) (<a href="https://arte.idoneos.com/renacimiento/el_renacimiento_en_su_apogeo#miguel_angel_bounarroti_(1475-1564">a</a>)&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><em>1540 Foundation of the Cía de Jesús</em></p>&#10;<p></p></em></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1550</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>160</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Bodín (1530-1596)</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em><i></i></em>Montaigne (1533-1592)<i></i></p>&#10;<p><em>Lipsy (1547-1606)</em></p>&#10;<p><em>Suarez (1548-1617)</em></p>&#10;<p><a href="../334062"><em><i></i></em>Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)<i></i></a></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/367048"><em>Bacon (1561-1626)</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em>Campanella (1568-1639)</em><a href="../334151"><em></em></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i>Grotius (1583-1645)<em><i></i></em>&#10;<em></em></p>&#10;<p><em>Gassendi (1592-1655)</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>1545 Council of Trent</em><p></p>&#10;<p><em>1555 Peace of Ausburg</em></p>&#10;<p><em>1555 Peace of Ausburg</em></p>&#10;<p><i></i><a href="https://religioncristiana.idoneos.com/calvinismo">1564 Calvin</a>&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368334"><em>1564-1642 Galileo</em></a></p>&#10;<p><i></i>1577 Comments by Tycho Brahe&#10;<i></i></p>&#10;<p><a href="https://historiadelaciencia.idoneos.com/368332"><em>1571-1630 Kepler</em></a></p>&#10;<p><em>1600 Shakespeare</em></p>&#10;<p></p></td></tr></table>