biography
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Fracastoro, Girolamo
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pronunciation:
[frakastawroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1478–1553)
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| biography:
| Scholar and physician, born in Verona, N Italy. In 1502 he became professor of philosophy at Padua, but also practised successfully as a physician at Verona. He excelled as geographer, astronomer, and mathematician, and wrote on the theory of music. His works De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1564, On Contagion and Contagious Diseases) contained the first scientifically correct germ theory of disease, predating Pasteur by 300 years. |
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