About Giovan Battista Verle
Lived 1739 – 1795 (aged 55–56). Giovan Battista Verle was a scientist.
Giovan Battista Verle was a 17th-century Italian instrument maker.
LIttle is known about Verle. In Venice, in the footsteps of his father Giovanni, he built an anatomical model of the human eye with the help of Antonio Molinetti, professor of anatomy at the University of Padua. In Florence, he was encouraged to make a model of the eye by Antonio Magliabecchi (1633-1714), librarian to the Grand Duke, and Giuseppe Zambeccari (1659-1729), professor of anatomy, University of Pisa. In 1680 he published Anatomia artificialis oculi humani inventa & recens fabricata (via Munich Digitization Center)
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Who was Giovan Battista Verle?
Italian scientist
When was Giovan Battista Verle born?
Giovan Battista Verle was born in 1739 in Bassano del Grappa.
When did Giovan Battista Verle die?
Giovan Battista Verle died in 1795 in Rovigo.
What was Giovan Battista Verle's occupation?
Giovan Battista Verle was a scientist.
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