Ovidio Montalbani, known by his pseudonym Giovanni Antonio Bumaldi, was an Italian polymath.
10 Facts About Ovidio Montalbani
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Ovidio Montalbani was a professor of logic, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine at the University of Bologna.
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Ovidio Montalbani studied philosophy with Vincenzo Montecalvi and medicine with the famous physician Bartolomeo Ambrosini.
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Ovidio Montalbani was the doyen of the Collegio Medico of Bologna and its prior from 1664 onwards.
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Ovidio Montalbani was a member of the free-thinking Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti, as well as one of the founders of the Accademia dei Vespertini, which held its first Assemblies in his house.
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Ovidio Montalbani was one of the most prolific polymaths of his day.
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Ovidio Montalbani's treatise was one of the first studies on the subject of inorganic phosphorescence.
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In 1668 Ovidio Montalbani edited the previously unprinted Dendrologia by Ulisse Aldrovandi.
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Ovidio Montalbani published a number of scientific works under the pseudonym of Giovanni Antonio Bumaldi.
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Ovidio Montalbani is an ambivalent figure in the early seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution.