Giovanni Bianchi
Giovanni Bianchi may refer to: * Giovanni Bianchi (physician) (1693–1775), Italian physician, anatomist, archaeologist, zoologist and intellectual * Giovanni Bianchi (politician) (1939–2017), Italian politician and teacher {{Hndis, Bianchi, Giovanni ...
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Giovanni Bianchi (physician)
Giovanni Bianchi (1693–1775), also known as Jano Planco, was an Italian physician, Anatomy, anatomist, Archaeology, archaeologist, Zoology, zoologist and intellectual. He wrote numerous medical texts and ''De Conchis minus notis liber'' (1739), a work on Foraminifera, and maintained a cabinet of curiosities. Biography Giovanni Bianchi was born in Rimini in 1693, the son of Gerolamo, a pharmacist. He studied medicine, physics and botany at the University of Bologna, graduating in 1719. He then moved to Padua and became acquainted with Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Antonio Vallisneri. He returned to Rimini, where he practised medicine for the next twenty years. He maintained a correspondence with a wide circle of cultured Italians but was not always in agreement with other members of the medical profession, preferring to put into practice his own research results rather than relying on traditional methods. He was appointed Professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Siena ...
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