Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)

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Name (English)
Girolamo Fracastoro
Short name
Girolamo Fracastoro
Year of birth
1478
Year of death
1553
Short Description
"Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) 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.

He´s the founder of epidemiology, he studied mode of transmission in syphilis." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
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