Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician, poet, and scholar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 ā 6 August 1553[1]) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.[2] 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.[3]