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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.
1677Baruch Spinoza dies in The Hague21 February 1677Spinoza dies on 21 February 1677 in The Hague, aged 44, probably of a lung illness aggravated by years of inhaling glass dust from lens grinding.