CLAVIUS EXAMPLE

Christopher Clavius (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his textbooks were used for astronomical education for over fifty years in and even out of Europe.

SPARQL QUERY: Persons borned between 1488-01-01 and 1600-01-01 and dead before 1700-01-01

				
PREFIX : <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
PREFIX dbp: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX dbpprop: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>

SELECT ?person ?b_date ?d_date ?abstract ?thumbnail
WHERE {
   ?person rdf:type dbp:Person ;
      dbp:birthDate ?b_date ;
      dbp:deathDate ?d_date ;
      dbp:abstract ?abstract .
OPTIONAL { ?person dbp:thumbnail ?thumbnail }
   FILTER ( ?b_date >= '1488-01-01'^^xsd:date && ?b_date < '1600-01-01'^^xsd:date && ?d_date < '1650-01-01'^^xsd:date )
   FILTER ( langMatches(lang(?abstract), "EN"))
} ORDER BY ?person ?b_date