Luca Gaurico, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLuca Gaurico
Italian astronomer
Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1476
Place of Birth: Montecorvino Rovella, Campania, Italy
Date of Death: 06-Mar-1558
Profession: astrologer, mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Luca Gaurico
- Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (Giffoni March 12, 1475 – March 6, 1558 in Rome) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, astrological data collector and mathematician.
- He was born to a poor family in the Kingdom of Naples, and studied judicial astrology, a subject he defended in his Oratio de Inventoribus et Astrologiae Laudibus (1508).
- Judicial astrology concerned the fate of man (astrologia judiciaria; mundane astrology) as influenced by the stars.
- His most famous work is the Tractatus Astrologicus.
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