Andreas Musalus (, , ; ) was a

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and architectural theorist who was largely active in

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during the 17th-century Italian

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Biography

Andreas Musalus was born to a noble

family in 1665, in

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on the island of

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. His family were originally from

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and his father was a doctor by profession. Due to the Ottoman conquest of Crete the family migrated to

when Andreas was an infant. Andreas began studying in his adolescence, he ultimately studied

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and

at the

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. Whilst in Padua Musalus studied the rhetoric of Pietro Paolo Calore and learned mathematics from Filippo Vernade, the Lieutenant General of Artillery of the

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. Vernade taught Musalus mathematics of military architecture. Musalus continued his studies and made such immense progress in mathematics that in 1697 at the age of thirty two years, he was assigned to teach mathematics in Venice. He married in the year 1707, he died in 1721, in the region of Venice.

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