Stefano Lorenzini (Florence, circa 1652 - ...) was an Italian physician.
He studied medicine in Pisa and completed surgery at the Florentine Hospital of S. Maria Nuova, where he had for Masters Francesco Redi, Niccolò Stenone, John Fynch and other major scholars. He fell in disgrace to Grand Duke Cosimo III de 'Medici, who put him in jail together with his famous mathematician Lorenzo.
His observations about torpedoes, published in Florence in 1678, provide an example of extraordinary in-depth analysis of animal anatomy and physiology, based on new mechanistic and corpuscolaristic perspectives applied to the study of living things. His is the discovery of the so-called Lorenzini amps, special sense organs owned by Elasmobranchi (shark and breed), located at the front of the head and forming a network of channels filled with gel. Notemodify wikitesto Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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