Francesco Buonamici

Francesco Buonamici (1533 to 1603) was an Italian philosopher and professor, born in Florence where his father was a notary. He studied at the University of Pisa under teachers including Pier Vettori and Ciriaco Strozzi, became a teacher of philosophy there in 1565 and a full professor in 1571, and in 1598 succeeded Francesco Piccolomini at the University of Padua. He taught natural philosophy on the basis of Aristotle and wrote the treatise De Motu on the dynamics of motion, which he related to the composition of bodies. He also wrote on food and nutrition in De alimenti essentia, and his cosmology described a God who eternally contemplates himself without relation to human events. Galileo Galilei studied under him and referred to his works.