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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's 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.
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