René Descartes (1596-1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician.
Willebrørd Snell (1591-1626) was a Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and scientist who is famously known for the law of refraction.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher, and writer of music.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion and astronomy.
Notice that the period of Descartes and Snell overlap with the period of Kepler and Galileo.
Therefore, we can conclude that the given statement is true.