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People: Girolamo Fracastoro
Topic: Middle Bronze Age I (Near and Middle East)
Location: Steinheim an der Murr Baden-Württemberg Germany

Girolamo Fracastoro

Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy
Years: 1476 - 1553

Girolamo Fracastoro (around 1476-1478 – 6 August 1553) is an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.

Fracastoro subscribes to the philosophy of atomism, and rejects appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation.