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Giambattista della Porta, also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation.
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Born 1535 · Died 4 February 1615 · Q334154
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From approximately 1563 to 1566 Della Porta travels to other parts of Italy, France and Spain, collecting secrets and meeting with learned men. Indeed he presented to Philip II his book on ciphers De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563). The second edition of his Magia Naturalis (1561) also contains a brief dedication to the Spanish Philip
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“From approximately 1563 to 1566 Della Porta travels to other parts of Italy, France and Spain, collecting secrets and meeting with learned men. Indeed he presented to Philip II his book on ciphers De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563). The second edition of his Magia Naturalis (1561) also contains a brief dedication to the Spanish Philip”
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Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,596 times.
Published “Erlotinib versus standard chemotherapy as first-line treatment for European patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (EURTAC): a multicentre, open-label, randomised phase 3 trial” in The Lancet Oncology — cited 4,419 times.
Published “Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy” in Diabetes Care — cited 4,065 times.
Published “Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 11,243 times.
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Died 1615-02-04.
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Born 1535.
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