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    years of age. One of Riccioli's most significant works was his 1651 Almagestum Novum (New Almagest), an encyclopedic work consisting of over 1500 folio...
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    of Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory. Springer. ISBN 9789027703118. Almagestum novum, chapter nine, cited in Graney, Christopher M. (2012). "126 arguments...
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    astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) published his book Almagestum novum ... . In volume 1 of his Astronomia Reformata, Riccioli discusses the...
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    to King Ladislaus IV of Poland and along with Riccioli/Grimaldi's Almagestum Novum became the standard work on the Moon for over a century. There are...
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    Italy authored the present scheme of Latin lunar nomenclature. His Almagestum novum was published in 1651 as summary of then current astronomical thinking...
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  • orbit around the Sun. Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Almagestum Novum includes a map of the Moon giving definitive names to many features...
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    Francesco Grimaldi and Giovanni Battista Riccioli in their lunar map Almagestum novum. Michael van Langren, in his Lumina Austriaca Philippica of 1645, used...
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    Grimaldi described the effect in connection with artillery in the 1651 Almagestum Novum, writing that rotation of the Earth should cause a cannonball fired...
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    lunar nomenclature of Giovanni Riccioli, published in 1651 with the Almagestum Novum. It was officially adopted by the IAU in 1935. The selenographic coordinates...
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    distances conformed to Kepler's third law. See: Joanne Baptista Riccioli, Almagestum novum ... (Bologna (Bononia), (Italy): Victor Benati, 1651), volume 1, page...
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    Media Partners, LLC. ISBN 978-0-530-46473-2. Vol. 1, part 1, p. 422, Almagestum Novum Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Giovanni Battista Riccioli...
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  • ISBN 9789004216327. Retrieved 14 July 2023. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1651). Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observationibus aliorum, et...
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    Bartolus for fellow Ferrarese Jesuit Daniello Bartoli (1608-1685) in his Almagestum novum (1651). The name was not recognized by the IAU. "Bailly (crater)"....
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    astronomers, like Grimaldi and praised and mentioned in Riccioli's Almagestum novum and Astronomia reformata. However, today it can be seen in the Naval...
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    Riccioli provides an alternative account in his biography of Postel in Almagestum Novum - that Postel was ejected by St. Ignatius from the Jesuits after taking...
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    of Newton. The crater name Cabeus first appeared in the 1651 work Almagestum Novum by Giovanni Riccioli, who named it after Niccolò Cabeo. However, the...
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    Diane Publishing. pp. 6–11. ISBN 0-87169-902-8. J. Riccioli (1651): Almagestum Novum, p. XXVIII Friedenwald, Harry (1939). "Abraham Zacutus". Bulletin of...
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    Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671) – Jesuit astronomer who authored Almagestum novum, an influential encyclopedia of astronomy; the first person to measure...
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    sunspots as an illustration of his Vortex Theory. In his 1651 work Almagestum Novum, Giovanni Battista Riccioli set out 126 arguments against the Copernican...
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    Lucis et Umbrae, Romae 1646, pp. 16, 831; Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Almagestum novum, Bononiae 1651, pp. 203, 208, 485 ss.; Crasso, Lorenzo (1666). Elogii...
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    Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Paperback) Almagestum Novum, Bologna 1651, pp. 141, 195, 280. Gundlach, F. Catalogus Professorum...
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    Snows") is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his Almagestum novum, the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland...
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    His arguments were published by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in his Almagestum novum (1651) and later resumed by John Wallis and Isaac Newton.[citation...
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    observations, many of which have been recorded by Riccioli in the Almagestum Novum in the Astronomia Reformata and in the Geographia Reformata. Mut died...
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  • in the shadow of Galileo’s Trial in 1633, produced a massive work (Almagestum novum) in which he assembled 49 arguments in favor of the daily and annual...
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    Bolognese scientists who supported Galileo. In the first volume of his Almagestum novum (Bologna, 1651), Giovanni Battista Riccioli praised Manzini’s philosophical...
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    Grant Aitken, New York: Dover, 1964, p. 1. Vol. 1, part 1, p. 422, Almagestum NovumArchived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, Giovanni Battista Riccioli...
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  • was one of the first telescopic observers of the Moon. He was author of the Almagestum Novum, that contains a lunar map still used today. IAU · 122632...
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  • volume of his collection. Pappus, Commentaria in Almagestum Theon Alexandrinus, Commentaria in Almagestum 1538 Nicomachus Gerasenus, Introductio Arithmetica...
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  • Beschryving der Aardgewassen Abraham Munting (1626-1683) 1696 London Almagestum Leonard Plukenet (1642–1706) 1696 Brandenburg Index Nominum Plantarum...
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