Domenico Gusmano Galeazzi (4 August 1686 -30 July 1775) was an Italian anatomist and professor of physics at the

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. He described the nature of urinary tract calculi. Galeazzi (sometimes spelled Galeati) was born in Bologna, and there studied at the Jesuit College in Bologna and then studied medicine under Matteo Bazzani and

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. Galeazzi obtained a doctorate in Philosophy and Medicine in 1709, and was appointed a substitute lecturer in experimental physics along with professor Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari. In 1719, he traveled with

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to the Alps of San Pellegrino to investigate the fossils of shells and weather. In 1728, he visited, with Marco Maria Melega, regions of Italy afflicted with a plague of locusts. In 1734, when Beccari became professor of chemistry, and Galeazzi replaced him as professor of physics. One of Galeazzi's pupils was

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, who subsequently became his son-in-law when he married Domenico's daughter, Lucia Galeazzi. Galeazzi was inducted into the

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.Bullettino delle scienze mediche
published by the Societa Medico Chirurgica of Bologna; series 3 volume 13, page 389-391.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galeazzi, Domenico Gusmano 1686 births 1775 deaths Italian anatomists People from Bologna