Giovan Battista Verle

Credit: Wellcome Collection

Giovan Battista Verle was a 17th-century Italian instrument maker.[1][2]

LIttle is known about Verle. In Venice, in the footsteps of his father Giovanni, he built an anatomical model of the human eye with the help of Antonio Molinetti, professor of anatomy at the University of Padua.[3] In Florence, he was encouraged to make a model of the eye by Antonio Magliabecchi (1633-1714), librarian to the Grand Duke, and Giuseppe Zambeccari (1659-1729), professor of anatomy, University of Pisa. In 1680 he published Anatomia artificialis oculi humani inventa & recens fabricata (via Munich Digitization Center)

References

  1. ↑ "Museo Galileo - Giovan Battista Verle". catalogo.museogalileo.it. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
  2. ↑ Mantovani, Mattia; Rebohm, Simon (2025-09-24). "Picturing Life in the Early Modern World". Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2025.0030. ISSN 1743-0178.
  3. ↑ Owen, Harry (2016). Simulation in Healthcare Education: An Extensive History. SpringerLink Bücher (1st ed. 2016 ed.). Cham: Springer. pp. 334–336. ISBN 978-3-319-26575-9.


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