Antonio Cocchi

Antonio Cocchi
Antonio Cocchi
Born (1695-08-03)3 August 1695
Benevento
Died 1 January 1758(1758-01-01) (aged 62)
Nationality Italy
Occupation physician
naturalist
writer
Known for anatomy

Antonio Cocchi (3 August 1695 – 1 January 1758) was an Italian physician, naturalist and writer. He was best known for his work on anatomy.[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1736, his candidature citation describing him as "a very noted & Skilfull Physician at Florence, and formerly Professor of Physic and Philosophy in the University of Pisa, desirous of being elected into this Honourable Society; he is a Gentleman of very distinguished merit both in his profession and all other parts of Natural & Philosophical Learning; he is the Author of Several Books and is now publishing some Greek Medical Writers never before printed from the MSS in the Laurentian Library; he is also at this time Secretary to a Society newly Set up at Florence very much on the Same foot as the Royal Society is here" [2]

Cocchi spent three years in England, where he knew Isaac Newton. Although offered a position by the Princess of Wales, he returned to teach in Tuscany.[3]

Cocci was also a classical scholar, producing the first edition of the Ephesian Tale, a novel by Xenophon of Ephesus, as well as other work on Greek romances. His Discorso primo sopra Asclepiade (1758), on Asclepiades of Bithynia, appeared also in his collected Opere (1824).[4] Elizabeth Rawson called the Discorso "learned and often penetrating, though over-enthusiastic about his subject's moral virtues."[5]

Cocchi's writing style was characterized by purity of diction, and in his own time was regarded as a model for scientific writing.[6]

References

Dell'anatomia, 1745
  1. ↑ Santi, Raffaella; Conti, Andrea A.; Nesi, Gabriella. "What a pity the master cannot admire his pupil's work: the autopsy of the anatomist Antonio Cocchi (1695-1758) performed by his pupil Saverio Manetti". Cardiovasc. Pathol. United States. 20 (4): 238–41. doi:10.1016/j.carpath.2010.05.002. PMID 20619688.
  2. ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Rawson, "The Life and Death of Asclepiades of Bithynia," Classical Quarterly 32.2 (1982), p. 361.
  4. ↑ Rawson, "Asclepiades," p. 361. An English translation was made in 1762, and the work can be found in English also in R.M. Green, Asclepiades: His Life and Writings (1955).
  5. ↑ Rawson, "Asclepiades," p. 361.
  6. ↑ Rawson, "Asclepiades," p. 361.


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