Realdo Colombo [SEP] place of death
Realdo Colombo
Realdo Colombo (c. 1515, Cremona – 1559, Rome) was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.
Early life and education.
Matteo Realdo Colombo or Realdus Columbus, was born in Cremona, Lombardy to an apothecary named Antonio Colombo. Although little is known about his early life, it is known he took his undergraduate education in Milan, where he studied philosophy, and he appears to have pursued his father's profession for a short while
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Physiology and medicine.
- Shortly before his death, Italian anatomist Realdo Colombo publishes his only work "De Re Anatomica", including his discovery of pulmonary circulation, of the clitoris and of the position and posture of the human embryo.
- Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal 1559–61, describes the medicinal properties of tobacco which he introduces in the form of snuff to the French court.
Deaths.