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Girolamo Fracastoro

Italian physician

  • Fame52.7
  • Momentum0.1
  • Wikipedia2.4K
Source-basedStable
Lived 1478–1553, aged 75
WritersWriter / Author
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    38 languages
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  • Era
    1478–1553
    Aged 75
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Updated 2026-06-20

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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Momentum0.1
Historical22.4
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
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