Blasius of Parma
Italian mathematician and astrologer
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Biagio Pelacani da Parma; c. 1350 – 1416), known in English as Blasius of Parma, was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astrologer. He popularised English and French philosophical work in Italy, where he associated both with scholastics and with early Renaissance humanists. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he taught from 1382 to 1388; he taught also at the University of Pavia (1374?