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1632 – 1677Baruch SpinozaRationalist philosopherBaruch (Benedictus) de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, born and lived in the Dutch Republic. One of the three great Continental rationalists alongside Descartes and Leibniz, he developed a monist metaphysics identifying God with Nature, and earned his living grinding optical lenses.
1632Baruch Spinoza born in Amsterdam24 November 1632Baruch Espinosa is born on 24 November 1632 in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, the third child of a Portuguese Sephardic merchant family that had fled the Iberian Inquisitions.