Ambrogio Soldani
1736
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1808
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
occupation: naturalist, mathematician, writer
position held: abbot
Ambrogio Soldani (1733-1815) was an Italian Camaldolese monk who is known for his works relating the shell fossils found in the mountains of Tuscany. Some of his work could now be viewed as the intersection of geology, zoology and paleontology. Today Soldani is considered, together with Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari, the father of micropaleontology. Charles Lyell considered him one of the most important eighteenth-century naturalists. He also published observations about astronomy. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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