Girolamo Fracastoro
✶January 1, 1478
†August 16, 1553
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†August 16, 1553
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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.
Italian physician, poet, and scholar
Biography from the article Girolamo Fracastoro on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.