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Michele Mercati

Michele Mercati
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (d. 1593)

Michele Mercati was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII. He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

8 April 1541

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