Person: Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was an Italian Italian physiologist and physicist who was the first to explain muscular movement and other body functions according to the laws of statics and dynamics.

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Born 28 January 1608, Naples, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy). Died 31 December 1679, Rome, Papal States (now Italy).

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Astronomy, Origin Italy


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive