Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was an Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician who is often described as the father of biomechanics. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigat
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
De Motu Animalium I's cover
Submarine, by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, in De Motu Animalium, 1680
De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670
Marcello Malpighi
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Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by s
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
…at the University of Pisa when he left the post himself. Borelli would attain this post in 1656. It was there that he first met the Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi. Borelli and Malpighi were both founder-members of the short-lived Accademia del Cimento, an Italian scientific academy founded in 1657. It was here…
Marcello Malpighi, a portrait from life by Carlo Cignani
Portrait of Marcello Malpighi in Opera Posthuma, London 1696
Portrait of Marcello Malpighi
Opera Omnia (Complete Works), London 1686