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Giovanni Francesco Beati taught metaphysics at Padua and Pisa. His most significant work proposed repositioning the second book (alpha minor) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics to the beginning of book two of the Physics.
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Martin, C. (2017). Beati, Giovanni Francesco. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_371-1
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