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Girolamo Fracastoro
January 1, 1478 – August 16, 1553
Italian physician, poet, and scholar
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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.
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- Birthday · January 1
- Anniversary · August 16
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