Scientists from Messina

right|thumb|200px|Dicaearchus of Messana Dicaearchus of Messana (; Dikaiarkhos; ), also written Dikaiarchos (), was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on geography and the history of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece. Although modern scholars often consider him a pioneer in the field of cartography, this is based on a misinterpretation of a reference in Cicero to Dicaearchus's tabulae, which does not refer to any maps made by Dicaearchus but is a pun on

Italian mathematician and astronomer (*1494 – †1575)

physicist

Italian activist

Italian anthropologist (1841-1936)

Italian physician and botanist (1570/5-1661)

botanist (1778-1837)

Italian naturalist and geologist (1833–1889)

Italian zoologist (1799–1854)