Francesco Buonamici (1533 – 29 September 1603) was an Italian philosopher, professor at the

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and writer who wrote about his ideas on motion in a treatise called ''De Motu''. He was one of the teachers of Galileo. Buonamici was born in

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where his father was a notary. He studied at the University of Pisa where his teachers included

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and

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. He read classical Greek texts including the works of Aristotle and became a teacher of philosophy at the University of Pisa in 1565 and a full professor in 1571. He taught natural philosophy based on Aristotle and in 1598, he succeeded Francesco Piccolomini at the

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. Buonamici was a contemporary of

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who also interpreted Aristotle but took a different opposing view on matters. Buonamici did not accept that elements were intermediate forms of substances, and like Aristotelians he believed that the dynamics of motion were related to composition. Buonamici wrote on food and nutrition in a 1603 book ''De alimenti essentia'' which covered human growth. Galileo Galilei studied under Buonamici and referred to his works. Buonamici, in his treatise, examined cosmology, movement and his version of God was an entity that eternally contemplated itself without relation to human events.

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De motu libri X
(1591)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buonamici, Francesco 1533 births 1603 deaths Italian philosophers University of Pisa alumni Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the University of Padua