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Giacomo Micalori (1570 – 1645) was an Italian theologian, philosopher and astronomer.[1]

Life

Born in Urbino in 1570,[1] he became in 1600 a canon of the Urbino Cathedral.[2] He was professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Urbino.[3]

His main work in four books, Della sfera mondiale, printed in Urbino in 1626 by Marc' Antonio Mazzantini with many astronomical illustrations, is a relevant work of disclosure against judicial astrology, with details about telescope and zodiac.[4]

He vigorously disputed with Erycius Puteanus (Erik van de Putte) about his proposal of a calendrical date line.[5] He was also author of a comedy and a drama.[3]

He died in Urbino in 1645.[1]

Works

• Micalori, Giacomo (1626). Della sfera mondiale (in Italian). In Urbino: Marco Antonio Mazzantini.
• Micalori, Giacomo (1635). Antapocrisi (in Italian). In Roma: Francesco Roma Cavalli.

References

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Giacomo Micalori (1570 – 1645) è stato un teologo, filosofo e astronomo italiano canonico e professore a Urbino.[1]

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