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Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin:
Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 – 6
August 1553) was an
Italian physician, poet, and
scholar in mathematics,
geography and...
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domains of life.
Basic forms of germ
theory were
proposed by
Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, and
expanded upon by
Marcus von
Plenciz in 1762. However, such...
- "syphilis" was
first applied by the
Italian physician and poet
Girolamo Fracastoro. The
causative organism,
Treponema pallidum, was
first identified by Fritz...
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middle of the 1500s,
Girolamo Fracastoro,
discovered that
diamond also
showed this effect. Some
efforts were made by
Fracastoro and others,
especially Gerolamo...
- Inc. ISBN 0-486-41444-2. di Bono,
Mario (1995). "Copernicus, Amico,
Fracastoro and Ṭūsï's Device:
Observations on the Use and
Transmission of a Model"...
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direction of
leading Padua professors—Bartolomeo da Montagnana,
Girolamo Fracastoro,
Gabriele Zerbi,
Alessandro Benedetti—and read
medical treatises that...
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religious doctrine was in some
places unwise,
scholars such as
Girolamo Fracastoro shared da Vinci's views, and
found the
attribution of
fossils to the 'Deluge'...
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harmful bacteria was
known to the
Chinese of the time." In 1546,
Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that
epidemic diseases were
caused by
transferable seedlike entities...
- character) was
first used by the
Italian physician and poet
Girolamo Fracastoro as the
title of his
Latin poem in
dactylic hexameter Syphilis sive morbus...
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easily spread Hepatitis B. The
Italian scholar and
physician Girolamo Fracastoro appears to have
first used the
Latin word fomes,
meaning "tinder", in...
