Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography...

as well as parasites. Basic forms of germ theory were proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, and expanded upon by Marcus von Plenciz in 1762. However...

term "syphilis" was first applied by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro. The causative organism, Treponema pallidum, was first identified...

1451–1483), Italian Renaissance painter Girolamo della Volpaia (c. 1530 Wikipedia talk:, Italian clock maker Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553), Italian physician...

the residence (and the place of death) of the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro. Affi borders the following municipalities: Bardolino, Cavaion Veronese...

middle of the 1500s, Girolamo Fracastoro, discovered that diamond also showed this effect. Some efforts were made by Fracastoro and others, especially...

mentioned microorganisms as a possible causal agent of diseases. Girolamo Fracastoro, in the mid 16th century, was the first one to scientifically state...

of a character) was first used by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter Syphilis sive...

others). In the middle of the 16th century, a doctor from Verona named Girolamo Fracastoro was the first to propose a theory that the very small, unseeable...

seeds that are so small they cannot be seen but are alive. In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that epidemic diseases were caused by transferable seedlike...

also easily spread Hepatitis B. The Italian scholar and physician Girolamo Fracastoro appears to have first used the Latin word fomes, meaning "tinder"...

it his capital for the remainder of his reign. Petrus Apianus and Girolamo Fracastoro described the comet's visit in 1531, with the former even including...

The crater commemorates the Italian scholar, astronomer and poet Girolamo Fracastoro, "Fracastorius" (1478‑1553). By convention these features are identified...

faculty in a college or university. Marcus Terentius Varro Avicenna Girolamo Fracastoro Marcello Malpighi Athanasius Kircher Jan Swammerdam Robert Hooke...

in 1898. It may have been inspired by the non-Ptolemaic system of Girolamo Fracastoro, who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by Eudoxus...

Fleming (1881–1955) — Scottish scientist, inventor of penicillin Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) — wrote on syphilis, forerunner of germ theory Sigmund...

harmful bacteria was known to the Chinese of the time." In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that epidemic diseases were caused by transferable seedlike...

probably given in 1083 at La Cava abbey near Salerno, Italy. In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro, a Florentine physician, described typhus in his famous treatise...

Bettini also noted the writings of Italian scholar and professor Girolamo Fracastoro in 1538 about combining lenses in eyeglasses to make the "moon or...

mathematician Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as Fracastorius, renowned scholar, physician, and poet Giovanni Giocondo, architect and scholar Girolamo dai Libri...

theory and to popularize it in Europe. Before him, scientists such as Girolamo Fracastoro (who had the idea that fomites could harbor the seeds of contagion)...

from religious doctrine was in some places unwise, scholars such as Girolamo Fracastoro shared da Vinci's views, and found the attribution of fossils to...

deaths, but also records of those eligible for the royal touch. Girolamo Fracastoro became the first person to propose, in his work De contagione in...

direction of leading Padua professors—Bartolomeo da Montagnana, Girolamo Fracastoro, Gabriele Zerbi, Alessandro Benedetti—and read medical treatises...

Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, Italian regent (d. 1510) Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (d. 1553) Visconte Maggiolo, Italian navigator...

(Von den Miasmen und Kontagien, 1840) – thereby following ideas of Girolamo Fracastoro and the work of Agostino Bassi; thus co-founding the theory of microorganisms...

Greek medical errors and revolutionizes European medicine 1546 – Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike...

(b. 1378) 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458) 1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) 1588 – Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg...

Tarchaniota Marullus, trans. Charles Fantazzi, 2012 Latin Poetry, Girolamo Fracastoro, trans. James Gardner, 2013 Notable Men and Women of Our Time, Paolo...

considered a pioneer in the field; called the father of plastic surgery Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553), physician and scholar; first to state the germ theory...