Andrea Argoli

Andrea Argoli (1570, Tagliacozzo – 1657) was an Italian scholar. He was a philosopher, lawyer, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer and writer of medical subjects. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1622 to 1627, and of the University of Padua from 1632 to 1657. He wrote many works, e.g. Ptolemaeus parvus (1652), De diebus criticis (1652, second ed.).