page_title: Physician writer
section_title: 16th century
hierarchical_section_title: Physician writer / 16th century
caption_attribution_description: Painting of William Gilbert (1544 - 1603)
context_page_description: Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
  The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Luis Barahona de Soto (1548–1595), Spanish poet admired by his contemporary, Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
  Jan Brożek (Broscius, 1585–1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician, rector of the Kraków Academy
  Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer and poet
  William Gilbert (1544–1603) English natural philosopher
  Jacques Grévin (c. 1539–1570) French dramatist
  Arthur Johnston (1587–1641) Scottish poet
  Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625) English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; best remembered as the author of Rosalynde, on which Shakespeare based As You Like It
  Sebastian Petrycy of Pilzno (1554–1626) was a Polish philosopher and physician.
  Michael Servetus (1511–53), Spanish theologian, cartographer, humanist; the first European to describe pulmonary circulation; burned at the stake, for his religious views, in John Calvin's Geneva.
  Andreas Vesalius (1514–64) Belgian anatomist, author of De humani corporis fabrica
caption: Gilbert
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