"Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy ...
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of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation.
He´s the founder of epidemiology, he studied mode of transmission in syphilis." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
