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


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About Michele Mercati

  • 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.

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