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Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Born

in Ferrara, Italy

April 17, 1598

Died

June 25, 1671

Website

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Genre

Science, Astronomy, Nonfiction

Influences

Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler ...more

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Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

Another prominent astronomical publication of Riccioli's was his 1665 Astronomia Reformata (Reformed Astronomy)—another large volume, although only half the length of the New Almagest. The contents of the two significantly overlap; the Reformed Astronomy might be thought of as a condensed and updated version of the New Almagest.

The Reformed Astronomy contains an extensive report on the changing appearance of Saturn. Included in the sec Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

Another prominent astronomical publication of Riccioli's was his 1665 Astronomia Reformata (Reformed Astronomy)—another large volume, although only half the length of the New Almagest. The contents of the two significantly overlap; the Reformed Astronomy might be thought of as a condensed and updated version of the New Almagest.

The Reformed Astronomy contains an extensive report on the changing appearance of Saturn. Included in the section on Jupiter is an apparent record of a very early (if not the earliest) observation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, made by Leander Bandtius, Abbot of Dunisburgh and owner of a particularly fine telescope, in late 1632. Also in that section Riccioli includes reports of Jovian cloud belts appearing and disappearing over time.

The appearance of the physico-mathematical argument in the Reformed Astronomy was the occasion for Stefano degli Angeli (1623–1697) to launch an "unexpected, somewhat disrespectful and sometimes flippant attack" on Riccioli and the argument. James Gregory published a report in England in 1668 on the resulting public and personal dispute on the matter of falling objects. This was a prelude to Robert Hooke's (1635–1703) invitation to Isaac Newton (1642–1727) to resume his scientific correspondence with the Royal Society, and to their ensuing discussion about the trajectory of falling bodies "that turned Newton's mind away from 'other business' and back to the study of terrestrial and celestial mechanics." The Reformed Astronomy featured an adaptation to the accumulating observational evidence in favor of Johannes Kepler's elliptical celestial mechanics: it incorporated elliptical orbits into the geo-heliocentric Tychonic theory. Riccioli accepted Johannes Kepler's ideas, but remained opposed to the heliocentric theory. Indeed, following the dispute with Angeli, Riccioli's attitude toward heliocentrism hardened.

Between 1644 and 1656, Riccioli was occupied by topographical measurements, working with Grimaldi, determining values for the circumference of Earth and the ratio of water to land. Defects of method, however, gave a less accurate value for degrees of arc of the meridian than Snellius had achieved a few years earlier. Snellius had been mistaken by approximately 4,000 meters; but Riccioli was more than 10,000 meters in error.[51] Riccioli had come up with 373,000 peded despite the fact that references to a Roman degree in antiquity had always been 75 milliare or 375,000 pes. He is often credited with being one of the first to telescopically observe the star Mizar and note that it was a double star; however, Castelli and Galileo Galilei observed it much earlier. ...more

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	Lucien Leuwen e l'avventura dell'io: Indagine su un personaggio stendhaliano (Quaderni / Università degli studi di Perugia, Facoltà di scienze della ... e letterature straniere) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Chronologiæ reformatæ et ad certas conclusiones redactæ tomus primus quartus ... auctore r.p. Io. Baptista Ricciolio Ferrariensi Societatis Iesu .. Chronologiæ reformatæ tomus tertius continens catalo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geographicae crucis fabrica et vsus ad repraesentandam mira facilitate, omnem dierum noctiumque ortuum solis & occasum, horarumque omnium varietatem ... Accessere exempli ergo eclipses [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prosodia Bononiensis reformata et ex duobus tomis in vnum ab ipso auctore redacta, nec sola rudimenta prosodiae pro tironibus, ... Auctore P. Io. Baptista Ricciolio Societatis Iesu Fer [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immunitas ab errore tam speculatiuo, quam practico definitionum S. Sedis apostolicae in canonizatione sanctorum; in festorum ecclesiasticorum institutione, & in decisione dogmatum, quae in verbo Dei s 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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