Andrea Argoli
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Andrea Argoli[1] (1570-1657) was a versatile Italian scholar. He was a jurist, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and medical writer.[2]
He was professor of mathematics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, from 1622 to 1627, and then the University of Padua 1632 to 1657. His astrology pupils may have included Placido Titi[3], and Giambattista Zenno, astrologer to Wallenstein.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Also Andreas, Andreae; Argolus, Argolo.
- ^ The Pandosion sphaericum of 1644, a large-scale geocentric cosmography [1], includes also description of the circulation of the blood following Jan de Wale.
- ^ Baigent, Michael. "Placidus and the Rosicrucian Connection." [2]
[edit] External links
- Galileo Project page
- (Italian) PDF
[edit] Further reading
- Gingerich, Owen. (1970). "Argoli, Andrea". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 244-245. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
