<Li> Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075--1141) Jewish - Spanish philosopher and poet </Li> <Li> Maimonides (1138--1204) rabbi, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt </Li> <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> <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>

Who was a renowed astronomer apart from being a physician