Michaelangelo Tilli ( 1655 - 1740 )

Birth: Castel Fiorentino, Italy Profession: Physician Research field: Medicine, Natural History, Physics Education: Pisa; MD (1677) Career: Practised in Florence; Physician to the Florentine ships travelling to Majorca and Minorca; travelled to Constantinople and Adrianople to treat Musaippa, son-in-law of the Sultan (1683); on his way home, travelled through the Greek archipelago, making notes on its natural history; Professor of Botany at Pisa; travelled to Tunisia to treat the Pasha; corresponded with William Derham (FRS 1703) and at Derham's request kept a record of the rainfall at Pisa while Derham did the same in London; his correspondents at the Botanical Garden in Amsterdam sent him many rare plants for the Botanical Garden at Pisa, a catalogue of which he published (1733) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1708.