Andreas Musalus was a Greek professor

Professor

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 of mathematics

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, philosopher and architectural theorist

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 who was largely active in Venice

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 during the 17th-century Italian Renaissance

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Biography

Andreas Musalus was born to a noble Greek family in 1665, in Candia

Heraklion

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 on the island of Crete

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. His family were originally from Constantinople

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 and his father was a doctor

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 by profession. Due to the Ottoman conquest of Crete

Cretan War (1645–1669)

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 the family migrated to Venice

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 when Andreas was an infant. Andreas began studying in his adolescence, he ultimately studied law

Law

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 and mathematics

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 at the University of Padua

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. Whilst in Padua Musalus studied the rhetoric of Pietro Paolo Calore and learned mathematics from Filippo Vernade, the Lieutenant General of Artillery of the Republic of Venice

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. Vernade taught Musalus mathematics of military architecture. Musalus continued his studies and made such immense progress in mathematics that in 1697 at the age of thirty two years, he was assigned to teach Mathematics in Venice. He married in the year 1707, he died in 1721, in the region of Venice.

See also

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  The migration of Byzantine scholars and other émigrés from southern Italy and Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine Empire and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by some scholars as key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies and...