16th Century from 1500 to 1599

16th Century (from 1500 to 1599)

Year	Who?	What?	Mathematics Category
1500	Nicolo Tartaglia
1501	Girolamo Cardan
1502	Pedro Nunes Salaciense
1506	Frederico Commandino
1508	Regnier Gemma Frisius
1510	Robert Recorde
1512	Gerardus Mercator
1514	Georg Joachim von Lauchen Rheticus
1515	Peter Ramus
1522	Lodovico Ferrari
1526	Rafael Bombelli
1527	John Dee
1530	Giovanni Battista Benedetti
1533	Cheng Dawei
1535	Giambattista Della Porta
1536	Egnatio Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti
1537	Franciscus Barocius
1538	Christopher Clavius
1540	Thomas Allen
1540	Ludolph Van Ceulen
1540	François Viète
1545	Guidobaldo Marchese del Monte
1546	Tycho Brahe
1546	Thomas Digges
1546	Paul Wittich
1547	Baha’ ad-Din al-Amili
1548	Giordano Bruno
1548	Pietro Antonio Cataldi
1548	Simon Stevin
1549	Sir Henry Savile
1550	Michael Mästlin
1550	John Napier
1552	Jost Bürgi
1552	Matteo Ricci
1552	Luca Valerio
1555	João Baptista Lavanha
1555	Giovanni Antonio Magini
1560	Thomas Harriot
1561	Henry Briggs
1561	Thomas Fincke
1561	Bartholomeo Pitiscus
1561	Adriaan van Roomen
1561	Johan Philip van Lansberge
1562	Xu Guangqi
1564	Galileo Galilei
1566	Giuseppe Biancani
1568	Marino Ghetaldi
1571	Johannes Kepler	first, second, and third planetary law of motion	astronomy
1573	Simon Mayr
1573	Christoph Scheiner
1574	William Oughtred
1577	Paul Guldin
1578	Benedetto Antonio Castelli
1580	Johann Faulhaber
1580	Pierre Hérigone
1580	Willebrord van Royen Snell
1581	Claude Gaspar Bachet	Existence of solutions of a linear Diophantine equation with two variables; Bachet’s Square	number theory
1581	Edmund Gunter
1583	Jean-Baptiste Morin
1584	Gregorius Saint-Vincent
1584	Pierre Vernier
1585	Claude Mydorge
1586	Peter Turner
1588	Benjamin Bramer
1588	Thomas Hobbes
1588	Marin Mersenne
1588	Étienne Pascal
1590	Jean Beaugrand
1591	Girard Desargues
1592	Pierre Gassendi
1592	Wilhelm Schickard
1594	Pierre Petit
1595	Albert Girard
1596	René Descartes
1596	Jacobus Golius
1597	Jean Charles de La Faille
1597	Henry Gellibrand
1598	Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri
1598	Claude Hardy
1598	Giovanni Battista Riccioli

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16th Century (from 1500 to 1599)

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