Porta, GIAMBATTISTA DELLA, Neapolitan physicist (1543-1615), wrote numerous works on physiology, gardening, arboriculture, pneumatics, and refraction, besides several comedies; his best-known books being Magia Naturalis (1569) and De Humana Physiognomia.—For Baccio della Porta, see BARTOLOMMEO.
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