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    the Arcetri area, with their Italian names: San Leonardo in Arcetri (Saint Leonard at Arcetri Church) San Matteo in Arcetri (Saint Matthew at Arcetri Church)...
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    The Arcetri Observatory (Italian: Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) is an astrophysical observatory located in the hilly area of Arcetri on the outskirts...
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    San Leonardo in Arcetri is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via di San Leonardo #25, a few hundred meters southeast of the Porta San...
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    worked on the development of nuclear particle counters at the Institute di Arcetri in Florence, Italy. While completing his PhD at the California Institute...
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  • 1991 Kitami A. Takahashi, K. Watanabe HYG 14 km MPC · JPL 6645 Arcetri 1991 AR1 Arcetri January 11, 1991 Palomar E. F. Helin THM 12 km MPC · JPL 6646 Churanta...
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  • Machine P. Forshay — Giuseppe Forti 49 1939–2007 G. Forti; Beppe Forti, at Arcetri Observatory G. Forti (6876) Filip Fratev 28 1974–pres. F. Fratev; founder...
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    (former CAISMI), with the assistance of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and the Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio of the University...
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    married to Giovanna Colbachini in 1879 and they had two sons. He died in Arcetri. Abetti mainly worked in positional astronomy and made many observations...
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    religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name...
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    (2019-07-16). "Così da Arcetri captarono lo sbarco sulla Luna". MEDIA INAF (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-11. "La notte che da Arcetri ascoltarono gli astronauti...
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    Florence". This other home was also his own, the Villa Il Gioiello, in Arcetri. The earliest biography of Galileo, written by his disciple Vincenzo Viviani...
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  • MPC · 7846 7847 Mattiaorsi 1996 CS8 Mattia Orsi (born 1995), nephew of Arcetri astronomer Giuseppe Forti JPL · 7847 7848 Bernasconi 1996 DF1 Giovanni...
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    "binocular". LBT takes advantage of active and adaptive optics, provided by Arcetri Observatory. The collecting area is two 8.4 meter aperture mirrors, which...
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    Florence lies in a basin formed by the hills of Careggi, Fiesole, Settignano, Arcetri, Poggio Imperiale and Bellosguardo (Florence). The Arno river, three other...
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    Galileo Galilei was placed under house arrest, served in Rome, Siena, Arcetri, and Florence, for publishing writings said to be "vehemently suspected...
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    Radioastronomia di Bologna, the Cagliari Observatory (Cagliari) and the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (Florence). The telescope is in Sardinia, 35...
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  • physicist, and worked at Harvard's Radio Meteor Project and later at the Arcetri Observatory, in Florence, Italy. He was a member of the third IAU Division:...
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  • Tuscany San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio ad Acilia, Rome San Leonardo in Arcetri, Florence San Leonardo in Treponzio, Tuscany San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija...
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    invention: One day in 1641, while I was living with him at his villa in Arcetri, I remember that the idea occurred to him that the pendulum could be adapted...
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    circles, and he met the astronomer Galileo who was under house arrest at Arcetri, as well as others. Milton probably visited the Florentine Academy and...
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    Archbishop Piccolomini in Siena, Galileo was allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the rest of his life under house arrest....
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    to life imprisonment in 1633, he lived not far from the fort in Villa Arcetri. The design of the fort reflects both Italian Renaissance and military...
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    The road away from Florence soon passes the church of San Leonardo in Arcetri. The gateway was erected in 1324 in the sixth and last set of walls for...
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    name Gioiello was given due to its favorable position in the hills of Arcetri, near the Torre del Gallo. It was an elegant home, surrounded by many acres...
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    and Acolti to Aldebrandino, a prior of the Augustinian establishment in Arcetri in 1250. The plot was located on the south bank of Arno in the sesto (one...
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  • Cestello San Giorgio sulla Costa San Jacopo sopr'Arno San Leonardo in Arcetri Santa Lucia dei Magnoli Santa Maria del Carmine Santa Maria al Pignone...
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    located in Florence, Italy, located at Pian de' Giullari, in the hills of Arcetri, on top of a ridge overlooking the city where there is a magnificent panorama...
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    was the ancestor of Florence's present-day Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. Élisa later became unwillingly involved in Napoleon's removal of Pope...
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  • (born 1942), a professor of astronomy at the University of Florence and Arcetri Observatory MPC · 11102 11103 Miekerouppe 1995 SX19 Mieke Rouppe, member...
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    this piazza, where it had been placed, and installed it in the suburbs of Arcetri. In its place, the Jewish-Italian patron Angiolo Orvieto commissioned this...
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