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Toscanelli Dal Pozzo, Paolo
(b. Florence, Italy, 1397; d. Florence, 1482)
astronomy, geography, medicine.
Toscanelli’s father, Domenico, was a physician.
Information on Toscanelli’s work is scanty and incomplete, since only a few fragments of his writings are extant.
Born in Florence in and graduated from Padua medical school in , he was a learned physician, astronomer, mathematician, and.He must have begun his studies in medicine, mathematics, and astronomy at the University of Florence but later transferred to the more famous University of Padua, where he formed a friendship with Nicolas of Cusa. While pursuing his medical studies at Padua, Tascanelli was drawn to astrology but nevertheless achieved important results in astronomy.
On his return to Florence, the Signoria of the city assigned Toscanelli the treatment of “judicial astrology,” then much in vogue.
Deemed by Cusa and Regiomontanus as the most learned living mathematician, he was introduced to Brunelleschi, then busy with the construction of the large cupola of the basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore. The great height of the lanter