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 * [[image:Paolo_dal_Pozzo_Toscanelli.jpg width="374" height="388" align="left"]]Toscanelli, Italian Mathematician**

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Toscanelli is noted for his observations of comets and the painstaking calculation of their orbits. Among these was the comet of 1456; only named Halley's comet when Halley confirmed its return in 1768.