ABSTRACT
Physician, mathematician, and translator, a native of Urbino, he studied Latin and Greek in his youth, then pursued courses in philosophy and medicine at the University of Padua for ten years, and finally took his medical degree from the University of Ferrara in 1546. Withdrawing soon after from the practice of medicine “because of its uncertainty,” he settled into editing, translating, and commenting on the classics of ancient Greek mathematics, a career he pursued to the end of his life. His only original publications were a brief treatise On the Calibrating of Sundials (1562) and a work on the center of gravity of solids (1565). From 1569 onward, he lived at Urbino, where he was the teacher of Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607) and Bernadino Baldi (1553-1617).
