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Giambattista Vico
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Giambattista Vico

Italian philosopher and historian

Born 23 June 1668 · died 23 January 1744, aged 75
Also known as Gianbattista Vico, Giovan Battista Vico, John Baptist Vico

Who was alive at the same time as Giambattista Vico?

  1. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  2. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  3. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  4. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  5. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  6. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  7. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  9. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  10. Giambattista Vico, 1668 – 1744
  11. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  12. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  14. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  15. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  16. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  17. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  19. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  20. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  21. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  22. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  23. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  24. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826

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When Giambattista Vico was born, Isaac Newton was 25, Molière was 46, John Locke was 35, Rembrandt was 61 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 21.

When Giambattista Vico died, George Washington was 11, Johann Sebastian Bach was 58, Voltaire was 49, Immanuel Kant was 19 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 31.

Born during Giambattista Vico’s lifetime: George Washington, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born about 5 years after Giambattista Vico died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born about 12 years after Giambattista Vico died, Blaise Pascal died about 6 years before Giambattista Vico was born and Francisco Goya was born about 2 years after Giambattista Vico died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

228 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giambattista Vico. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1706.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  9. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  11. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  12. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  13. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  20. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  21. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  24. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  25. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  26. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  27. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  28. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  29. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  30. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  31. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  32. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  33. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  34. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  36. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  37. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  38. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  39. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  40. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  41. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  42. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  43. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  44. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  45. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  46. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  47. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  48. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  49. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  50. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  51. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  52. George III 1738 – 1820
  53. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  54. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  55. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  56. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  57. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  58. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  59. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  60. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  61. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  62. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  63. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  64. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  65. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  66. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  67. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  68. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  69. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  70. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  71. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  72. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  73. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  74. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  75. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  76. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  77. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  78. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  79. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  80. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  81. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  82. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  83. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  84. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  85. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  86. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  87. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  88. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  89. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  90. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  91. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  92. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  93. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  94. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  95. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  96. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  97. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  98. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  99. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  100. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  101. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  102. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  103. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  104. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  105. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  106. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  107. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  108. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  109. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  110. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  111. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  112. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  113. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  114. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  115. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  116. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  117. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  118. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  119. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  120. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  121. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  122. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  123. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  124. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  125. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  126. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  127. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  128. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  129. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  130. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  131. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  132. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  133. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  134. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  135. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  136. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  137. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  138. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  139. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  140. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  141. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  142. Peter II of Russia 1715 – 1730
  143. Charles III of Spain 1716 – 1788
  144. Ahmad Shah Durrani c. 1722 – 1772
  145. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  146. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  147. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  148. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  149. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  150. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 – 1788