Just a small not on Pedro Nunes  he was not a Jew who converted to catholicism he was catholic though  in  he was even knighted with an honorific catholic order by the King of Portugal he was a New Christian of Jewish origin that is to say someone whose ancestors no one knowns if recent of distant were Jewish and converted or were forced to convert to catholicism He never had problems with the Portuguese Inquisition although two of his grandsons were arrested Matias Pereira from  to  and Pedro Nunes Pereira from  to  they were both released alive and given back their properties though which was quite rare