- Andrea Argoli
Andrea Argoli [Also Andreas, Andreae; Argolus, Argolo.] (1570-1657) was a versatile Italian scholar. He was a jurist, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and medical writer. [The "Pandosion sphaericum" of 1644, a large-scale geocentric cosmography [http://www.cosmovisions.com/Argoli.htm] , includes also description of the
circulation of the blood followingJan de Wale .]He was professor of mathematics at the
University of Rome La Sapienza , from 1622 to 1627, and then theUniversity of Padua 1632 to 1657. His astrology pupils may have includedPlacido Titi [Baigent, Michael. "Placidus and the Rosicrucian Connection." [http://www.skyscript.co.uk/placidus.html] ] , andGiambattista Zenno , astrologer toWallenstein .Notes
External links
* [http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/argoli.html Galileo Project page]
*it icon [http://www.apav.it/ratio_online/num1/Argoli2.pdf PDF]Further reading
* cite encyclopedia
last = Gingerich
first = Owen
title = Argoli, Andrea
encyclopedia =Dictionary of Scientific Biography
volume = 1
pages = 244-245
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons
location = New York
date = 1970
isbn = 0684101149
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