Filehippo pacini biography of michael

Filippo Pacini was the son of Francesca Pacini, a cobbler, and Umiltà Dolfi.

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From early on his parents wanted him to become a bishop and be committed to religious studies. He was educated, with public assistance, at the Pistoia Episcopal seminary and later at the classical academy. Already while a boy he showed a great love for the natural sciences, and in 1830 he abandoned his ecclesiastical career and turned to medicine.

He attended the surgical school – Scuola Medica Pistoia – founded 1666 in his native city, and in 1830 entered the medical school attached to the Ospedale del Ceppo.

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In 1835, while still a student, he presented his discovery of the particles that now bear his name to the Florentine Società medico-fisica. This, however, was not much appreciated by the learned men of his time. He was not deterred, however, continuing his investigations with an Amici-microscope lent him by Niccolò Puccini.

Pacini graduated in surgery in 1839 and presented the resu