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Pietro d'Abano

Type Figure Region Italy Time c. 1250–1316 Also known as Pietro d'Abano、Petrus de Abano、Pietro Abano

Pietro d'Abano (c. 1250–1316) was an Italian philosopher, physician, and astrologer, and an important professor at the University of Padua.…

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  1. c. 1250–1290Abano Terme · Province of PaduaPietro was born in Abano Terme and in his early years traveled to Paris and elsewhere to study philosophy and medicine, encountering the Aristotelian tradition and the scholarship of Arabic translations, laying the theoretical foundation for his later reconciliation of natural philosophy and medicine.
  2. 1290–1316Padua · PaduaHe taught at the University of Padua and wrote works including the Conciliator differentiarum, synthesizing Greek and Arabic medicine and astrology; accused of heresy for holding views such as natural causation and the mortality of the soul, he was briefly imprisoned in 1315 and died in Padua in 1316.

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