Giovanni Battista Riccioli Scientist

Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. 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.

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Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Birth dateApril 17, 1598
Birth place
Italy , Ferrara
Nationality
Italy
Date of deathJune 25, 1671
Place of death
Bologna

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Field of study
Astronomy

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External resources

  1. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010BaltA..19..265G#
  2. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010JHA....41..453G#
  3. http://alunsalt.com/2011/01/17/copernicus-and-the-star-that-was-bigger-than-the-universe/#
  4. http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2057#
  5. http://books.google.com/books?id=J1d9HJHlISkC#
  6. http://books.google.com/books?id=MKwaAAAAYAAJ#
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  9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1195#
  10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1716#