Michele Mercati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michele Mercati

Italian polyhistor

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1541

Place of Birth: San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1593

Profession: physician, physicist, polymath, botanist, anthropologist, mineralogist, classical archaeologist, prehistorian

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII.
He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.