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Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), Dutch painter and engraver, was born at Gorinchem, the son of an architect.
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 – 1638) was a Flemish Renaissance painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Hosokawa Ujitsuna (細川 氏綱;; 1514 –; January 4, 1564) was a military commander in the end of the Muromachi period and Sengoku period.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Calvin
Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
A third herald of the "New Learning" was George Cop, physician to Francis I, in whose house Calvin found a welcome and gave ear to the religious discussions which Cop favoured.
On 25 April, 1564, he made his will, leaving 225 French crowns, of which he bequeathed ten to his college, ten to the poor, and the remainder to his nephews and nieces.
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 Galileo Galilei
Finally, his discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him.
Galileo was born in Pisa, Tuscany, on February 15, 1564, the oldest son of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician who made important contributions to the theory and practice of music and who may have performed some experiments with Galileo in 1588-89 on the relationship between pitch and the tension of strings.
By then Galileo had become blind, and he spent his time working with a young student, Vincenzo Viviani, who was with him when he died on January 8, 1642.
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 GALILEO'S EXPERIMENT AT THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However the Aristotlean scholars, completely ignorant of the (then new) scientific method, walked away from this demonstration convinced that their old master had been thereby proven correct.
Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa in 1564 -- the same year in which Shakespeare was born and the year in which Michelangelo and Calvin died.
After studying at the University of Pisa, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics -- but as this picture of Pisa reminds us, it was a Pisa, of course, that the famous leaning tower might well have suggested Galileo's most famous experiment.
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 Michelangelo - Renaissance Art
In this painting, he showed the Resurrection and judgment of humanity.
Michelangelo died of old age on February 18th, 1564.
The body of the dead artist was deposited in a sarcophagus in the church of Santi Apostoli, but a few days after the burial his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti, who had arrived in Rome, took possession of his uncle's property and carried off the corpse, concealed in a bale.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Galileo Galilei
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Born at Pisa, 15 February, 1564; died 8 January, 1642.
His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune, and had gained some distinction as a musician and mathematician.
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 History of this Page (Page 1564 - recycle me)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
History of this Page (Page 1564 - recycle me)
Certainty is often an illusion, and repose is not the destiny of Man. – Aristotle
This document contains a history of this page, from the current version to the earliest one available.
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 John Calvin — From Second Reform in Geneva to Death (1541—1564)
It was Calvin's theology and form of church government that triumphed in the Protestant Church of France, the Reformed Church of Germany, the Church of Scotland, the Reformed Church in Hungary, the Reformed Church in Holland and in Puritanism in Old and New England.
Calvin died in the year 1564 at the early age of 55.
Beza, his close friend and successor, described his death as having come quietly in his sleep, and then added:
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