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Alessandro Achillini (October 20, 1463 - August 2, 1512) was an Italian philosopher and physician.
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 in medicine and in philosophy at Bologna and Padua, and was styled the second Aristotle.
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 and incus. In 1503 he showed that the tarsus (middle part of the foot) consists of seven bones, he rediscovered the fornix and the infundibulum 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 the Secentisti.
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Further reading
- Franceschini, Pietro (1970). "Achillini, Alessandro". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 46-47. 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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