* 16 September 1494, † 22 July 1575
Francesco Maurolico was born on 16 September 1494 in Messina, Kingdom of Sicily (now Italy). Francisco Maurolico was an Italian Benedictine who wrote important books on Greek mathematics. He also worked on geometry, the theory of numbers, optics, conics and mechanics. Francesco Maurolico died on 22 July 1575 in Messina, Kingdom of Sicily (now Italy).
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