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Rafael Bombelli
Rafael Bombelli
1526 CE–1572 CE · Bologna
Rafael Bombelli was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, he is the author of a treatise on algebra and is a central figure in the understanding of imaginary numbers.
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- Piri Reis (Ahmed Muhiddin Piri)· 1465 CE–1553 CE
- Scipione del Ferro· 1465 CE–1526 CE
- Nicolaus Copernicus· 1473 CE–1543 CE
- Girolamo Fracastoro· 1478 CE–1553 CE
- Paracelsus· 1493 CE–1541 CE
- Jyeṣṭhadeva· 1500 CE–1575 CE
- Niccolò Tartaglia· 1500 CE–1557 CE
- Girolamo Cardano· 1501 CE–1576 CE
- Gemma Frisius· 1508 CE–1555 CE
- Gerardus Mercator· 1512 CE–1594 CE
- Georg Joachim Rheticus· 1514 CE–1574 CE
- Andreas Vesalius· 1514 CE–1564 CE
- Conrad Gessner· 1516 CE–1565 CE
- Li Shizhen· 1518 CE–1593 CE
- Ulisse Aldrovandi· 1522 CE–1605 CE
- Abraham Ortelius· 1527 CE–1598 CE
- François Viète· 1540 CE–1603 CE
- Simon Stevin· 1548 CE–1620 CE
- John Napier· 1550 CE–1617 CE
- Francis Bacon· 1561 CE–1626 CE
- Henry Briggs· 1561 CE–1630 CE
- Xu Guangqi· 1562 CE–1633 CE
- Galileo Galilei· 1564 CE–1642 CE
- Johannes Kepler· 1571 CE–1630 CE
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- Selim II· 1524 CE–1574 CE
- Bayinnaung· 1516 CE–1581 CE
- Ivan IV the Terrible· 1530 CE–1584 CE
- Oda Nobunaga· 1534 CE–1582 CE
- Túpac Amaru· 1545 CE–1572 CE
- Jiajing Emperor· 1507 CE–1567 CE
- Titu Cusi Yupanqui· –1571 CE
- Cosijopii I (Don Juan Cortés Cosijopii)· 1502 CE–1563 CE
- Humayun· 1508 CE–1556 CE
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi· 1537 CE–1598 CE
- Suleiman the Magnificent· 1494 CE–1566 CE
- Elizabeth I· 1533 CE–1603 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)· 1500 CE–1558 CE
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