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Santorio Santorio (29 March 1561 – 25 February 1636) whose real name was Santorio Santori (or de' Sanctoriis) better known in English as Sanctorius of Padua was an Italian physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into the life sciences and is considered the father of experimental physiology. He is also ...
Apr 5, 2024 · clinical thermometer. pulse. Santorio Santorio (born March 29, 1561, Capodistria [now Koper, Slvn.]—died Feb. 22, 1636, Venice [Italy]) was an Italian physician who was the first to employ instruments of precision in the practice of medicine and whose studies of basal metabolism introduced quantitative experimental procedure into medical ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
We do know that Santorio was the first to apply a numerical scale to the thermoscope, which later evolved into the thermometer. Both the pulsilogium and the thermoscope are perhaps best seen as the product of a learned circle in Venice that included Galileo, Santorio, Giofrancesco Sagredo, and fra Paolo Sarpi.
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1561-1636. Italian Physician. S antorio Santorio (Latinized as Sanctorius, or Santorius), is primarily remembered as the inventor of the clinical thermometer and the author of De Statica Medicina (On Medical Measurement, 1614). Santorio attempted to introduce quantitative experimental methods into medical research.
Sep 1, 2023 · It is true that it was Galileo's friend Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) who first used the thermoscope type of thermometer in the field of medicine, Santorio then being professor of medicine at the prestigious and influential University of Padua.
- Mark Cartwright
Apr 17, 2017 · In 1626 the Venetian physician and nobleman Santorio Santorio (1561–1636) published the details of his pulsilogium, a stop clock that could accurately measure the pulse rate—a device which may well have been the first precision instrument in the history of medicine.