Girolamo Fracastoro
1478 — 6 August 1553
Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation. His studies of the mode of syphilis transmission are an early example of epidemiology.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates -4, -74.