 Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557)@
- Champlain, Samuel de (1567-1635)@
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius von Nettsheim (1486-1535)@
- Akbar the Great (1556-1605)@
- Borgia, Lucrezia (1480-1519)@
- Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)@
- Explore the theories of Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist who worked to combine the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, patronage, lecture notes, and portraits.
- Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600)@
- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez@
- Charles V (1500-1558)@
- Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)@
- Find out about Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer, physician, economist, and soldier who formulated the first modern heliocentric theory of the solar system. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, the evolution of Copernicanism, original works, and his epochal astronomy book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
- Cortés, Hernán (1485-1547)@
- Dee, John (1527-1608)@
- Drake, Sir Francis (c.1540-1596)@
- Learn about Sir Francis Drake, also known as El Dragon, the 16th century sea captain, privateer, and first English mariner to circumnavigate the globe aboard his ship named The Golden Hind.
- Elizabeth I (1533-1603)@
- Learn about Elizabeth I, Queen of England, France, and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, her reign referred to as the Elizabethan era brought in reforms of the Church of England establishing a compromise between Catholic and Protestant. Sites offer history, biography, genealogy, legacy, reign, poems and speeches, and photographs.
- Erasmus, Desiderius (1469-1536)@
- Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)@
- Learn about Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher regarded as the father of modern physics and astronomy whose achievements include improvements to the telescope, a number of breakthrough astronomical observations, and effective support for Copernicanism. Sites feature biography, his pioneering scientific contributions, the influence of his mathematics on Renaissance art, and his struggles to persuade the Church of the truth behind his discoveries about the cosmos.
- Hariot, Thomas (1560-1621)@
- Learn about Thomas Hariot, the Enflish astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer to whom the theory of refraction is attributed. Sites provide biogrpahy, works, reports, and Hariot's drawings of his telescopic observations of the moon made in 1609 and 1610.
- Henry VIII (1491-1547)@
- Read about Henry VIII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland, from 1509 to 1547, during whose reign bought in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the union of England and Wales and also was known for religious upheavals. Sites feature biography, genealogy, legacy, history, foreign policy, and split of British Monarch with Rome over the issue of divorce.
- Hudson, Henry (1570?-1611)@
- Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584)@
- Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)@
- Learn about Johannes Kepler, the 16th century German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer best known for his laws of planetary motion which laid the foundation of Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, animated explanation of his laws, and the famous Kepler's Conjecture.
- Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)@
- Luna y Arellano, Tristan de (c.1519-1573)@
- Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469-1527)@
- Mary I (1516-1558)@
- Learn about Queen Mary I, known as Bloody Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)@
- Medici, Catherine de (1519-1589)@
- Napier, John (1550-1617)@
- Nostradamus (1503-1566)@
- Discover Nostradamus, the 16th century French physician and astrologer known for his prophetic quatrains. Sites feature life, writings, prophecies, translations, hoaxes, and misquotes attributed to the prophet who predicted various events including World War III, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and political upheavals.
- Orellana, Francisco de (1511-1546)@
- Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1541)@
- Ponce de Leon@
- Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)@
- Sabuco, Oliva (1562-1590)
 - Dedicated to the work of the 16th century philosopher who was also a pioneer in psychosomatic medicine. - Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco (1510-1554)@
- Verrazano, Giovanni da (1485-1528)@
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