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Borelli

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, mathematician, was born in 1608 at Naples. Educated at Florence, he taught mathematics at Pisa and medicine at Florence. He was the founder of the iatro-mathematical sect, or those who sought to apply mathematics to medicine as it is applied in physical sciences. Among his writings, the chief is De Motu Animalium. He died at Rome in 1679.