- Alessandro Achillini
Alessandro Achillini (
October 20 ,1463 -August 2 ,1512 ) was an Italianphilosopher andphysician .Biography
He was born and died in
Bologna , and is buried in the Church of Saint Martin there. He was celebrated as a lecturer both inmedicine and in philosophy at Bologna and Padua, and was styled the secondAristotle .His philosophical works were printed in one volume folio, at Venice, in 1508, and reprinted with considerable additions in 1545, 1551 and 1568.
He was also distinguished as an anatomist, among his writings being "Corpores humani Anatomia" (Venice, 1516-1524), and "Anatomicae Annotationes" (Bologna, 1520). He died at Bologna on the 2nd of August 1512. Amongst his notable discoveries, he is known as the first anatomist to describe the two tympanal bones of the ear, termed
malleus andincus . In 1503 he showed that the tarsus (middle part of the foot) consists of seven bones, he rediscovered thefornix and theinfundibulum of the brain.His brother,
Giovanni Filoteo Achillini , was the author of "Il Viridario" and other writings, verse and prose, and his grand-nephew,Claudio Achillini , was a lawyer who achieved some notoriety as a versifier of the school of theSecentisti .References
*1911
Further reading
* cite encyclopedia
last = Franceschini
first = Pietro
title = Achillini, Alessandro
encyclopedia =Dictionary of Scientific Biography
volume = 1
pages = 46-47
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons
location = New York
date = 1970
isbn = 0684101149
* Herbert Stanley Matsen. Alessandro Achillini (1463-1512) and his doctrine of universals and transcendentals: a study in Renaissance ockhamism. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press 1974
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