<Ul> <Li> Adam of Łowicz ( also known as Adamus Polonus ; died 1514 ) was a professor of medicine at Poland 's Kraków Academy , its rector in 1510 -- 11 , royal court physician , a humanist , writer and philosopher . </Li> <Li> Biernat of Lublin ( 1465 -- 1529 ) was a Polish poet , fabulist and physician . He was one of the first Polish - language writers known by name , and the most interesting of the earliest ones . </Li> <Li> Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 -- 1543 ) was a Polish mathematician , astronomer , physician , classical scholar , translator , Catholic cleric , jurist , governor , military leader , diplomat and economist , best known for his epoch - making book , De revolutionibus orbium coelestium . </Li> <Li> Girolamo Fracastoro ( Fracastorius ; 1478 -- 1553 ) Italian scholar ( in mathematics , geography and astronomy ) , poet and atomist ; as a physician , he proposed ideas very similar to the germ theory of disease . </Li> <Li> Paracelsus ( 1493 -- 1541 ) Swiss - born botanist , alchemist , occultist . </Li> <Li> François Rabelais ( 1483 -- 1553 ) French satirist and author of The Lives , Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel . </Li> </Ul>
<Ul> <Li> Adam of Łowicz ( also known as Adamus Polonus ; died 1514 ) was a professor of medicine at Poland 's Kraków Academy , its rector in 1510 -- 11 , royal court physician , a humanist , writer and philosopher . </Li> <Li> Biernat of Lublin ( 1465 -- 1529 ) was a Polish poet , fabulist and physician . He was one of the first Polish - language writers known by name , and the most interesting of the earliest ones . </Li> <Li> Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 -- 1543 ) was a Polish mathematician , astronomer , physician , classical scholar , translator , Catholic cleric , jurist , governor , military leader , diplomat and economist , best known for his epoch - making book , De revolutionibus orbium coelestium . </Li> <Li> Girolamo Fracastoro ( Fracastorius ; 1478 -- 1553 ) Italian scholar ( in mathematics , geography and astronomy ) , poet and atomist ; as a physician , he proposed ideas very similar to the germ theory of disease . </Li> <Li> Paracelsus ( 1493 -- 1541 ) Swiss - born botanist , alchemist , occultist . </Li> <Li> François Rabelais ( 1483 -- 1553 ) French satirist and author of The Lives , Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel . </Li> </Ul>
who was a renowed astronomer apart from being a physician
who was a renowed astronomer apart from being a physician
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus