Person Tilli; Michaelangelo (1655 - 1740) Tilli Michaelangelo Michelangelo 1655 - 1740 Italian Male Castel Fiorentino, Italy

Physician Medicine Natural history Physics Education: Pisa; MD (1677) Career: Practised in Florence; Physician to the Florentine ships travelling to Majorca and Minorca; travelled to Constantinople and Adrianople to treat Musaippa, son-in-law of the Sultan (1683); on his way home, travelled through the Greek archipelago, making notes on its natural history; Professor of Botany at Pisa; travelled to Tunisia to treat the Pasha; corresponded with William Derham (FRS 1703) and at Derham's request kept a record of the rainfall at Pisa while Derham did the same in London; his correspondents at the Botanical Garden in Amsterdam sent him many rare plants for the Botanical Garden at Pisa, a catalogue of which he published (1733) Son of Desiderio Tilli and his wife, Lugrezia Salvadori Fellow 30/11/1708 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DBI International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1655 - 1740 NA272 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 12a1844c-9ef3-4d0f-b52a-ea127e87ecb9