1593
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (born 1541)
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (born 1541)
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (born 1541)
Michele Mercati
Italian physician (1541–1593)
- Died
- 1593
Michele Mercati 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.