List of Famous people with last name Fracastoro

Girolamo Fracastoro

First Name Girolamo
Last Name Fracastoro
Born on November 30, 1477
Died on August 6, 1553 (aged 75)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation. His studies of the mode of syphilis transmission are an early example of epidemiology.

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