Michele Mercati
Italian physiciain
Died when: 52 years 78 days (626 months)Star Sign: Aries
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Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII.
He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
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