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Girolamo Fracastoro
(c. 1478 - 6 Aug 1553)
Italian physician, astronomer, geologist and poet.
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Science Quotes by Girolamo Fracastoro (2 quotes)
Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus
Syphilis or the French disease.
Syphilis or the French disease.
— Girolamo Fracastoro
Title of a poem recounting the story of a shepherd, Syphilis, the first sufferer of the disease henceforth known by that name. Etymology given in Oxford English Dictionary.
This, as you know, is my opinion, that as the body when it tyrannizes over the mind ruins and destroys all its soundness, so in the same way when the mind becomes the tyrant, and not merely the true lord, it wastes and destroys the soundness of the body first, and then their common bond of union … and sins against prudence and charity.
— Girolamo Fracastoro
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- 6 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Fracastoro's death.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
