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3 unusual facts about Giovanni Faber


Filippo Napoletano

Starting in 1620 he reproduced in etchings part of his collection of animal skeletons owned by Johann Faber, a Bavarian physician-naturalist residing in Rome and a member of the scientific Accademia dei Lincei.

Johannes Remus Quietanus

He sent copies of his Observationes et descriptiones duorum cometarum (1628) and Oeniponti (1629), intended for Galileo, to Federico Cesi and Giovanni Faber in Rome.

John Faber

Giovanni Faber (1574–1629), German papal doctor, botanist and art collector sometimes called Johann Faber



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