Andrea Argoli

Andrea Argoli, in Latin Andreas Argolus, born at Tagliacozzo in the Abruzzi on 15 March 1570 and dead on 27 September 1657, was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, one of the most important seventeenth-century makers of ephemerides. The son of a lawyer, he studied medicine, mathematics and astronomy at Naples and taught mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1622 to 1627, losing his post through his involvement with astrology and retiring to Venice, where the Senate appointed him to the chair of mathematics at Padua in 1632, which he held until 1657. In 1638 the Venetian government made him a Knight of the Order of Saint Mark. He was one of the first scholars in Italy to acclaim Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.