Died 1553-08-06.
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation. His studies of the mode of syphilis transmission are an early example of epidemiology.
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science · Italian physician, poet, and scholar · physician writer · poet · epidemiologist · mathematician · geographer · astronomer · lecturer · polymath · physician · also Girolamo Fracastoro, Fracastoro
Died 6 August 1553 · Q318593
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