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

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

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)...

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

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

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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

of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler Pietro Bembo – Rime Girolamo Fracastoro – Syphilis sive morbus gallicus Hans Sachs – Das Schlaraffenland...

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...

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

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...

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...

Renaissance, particularly through the writing of the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro. Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) advanced the science of microscopy...

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

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...

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

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

historian, republishing works by erstwhile physicians that included Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553), Giovanni de Vigo (1460–1525) and Jacques de Béthencourt...

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

Wyatt, English biographer of Anne Boleyn (died 1624) March 17 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian scholar and poet (born 1478) (executed) April 9 – François...

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

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