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    Francesco Maurolico (Latin: Franciscus Maurolycus; Italian: Francesco Maurolico; Greek: Φραγκίσκος Μαυρόλυκος; Sicilian: Francescu Maurolicu; Messina...
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  • stated for Platonic solids in 1537 in an unpublished manuscript by Francesco Maurolico. Leonhard Euler, for whom the concept is named, introduced it for...
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  • and subsequently by Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Guidobaldo del Monte, Adriaan van Roomen, Florence Rivault, Francesco Buonamici, Marin Mersenne...
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    Peter of Candia antipope (1339–1410) Pope Innocent VIII (1432-1492) Francesco Maurolico mathematician and astronomer (1494-1575) Nicholas Kalliakis philosopher...
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  • During the Renaissance, an edition of this work was published by Francesco Maurolico. A Latin translation was made by Vettor Fausto, dedicated to Giovanni...
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    Valeriani, Cola Bruno, Bernardino Rizzo, Francesco Faraone, Antonio Maurolico (the father of Francesco Maurolico), Francesco Giannelli and Cristóbal Escobar....
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    traditional Mata e Grifone procession. The earliest records, by Francesco Maurolico, record only one the male figure, and associate it with Zanclus....
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    Wolfgang Schuler, Christopher Clavius, Thomas Digges, John Dee, Francesco Maurolico, Tadeáš Hájek and Bartholomäus Reisacher [de]. In England, Queen...
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    mathematician Francesco Maurolico, who came from Messina, identified the remains of a temple of Orion near the present Messina Cathedral. Maurolico also designed...
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  • Messina, 1671, page 476. Della storia di Sicilia, by the abbot Francesco Maurolico, edited by Girolamo Di Marzo Ferro, Etienne Baluze, Giacomo Longo...
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    colours wouldn't be dull. Sicilian mathematician and astronomer Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575) answered Aristotle's problem how sunlight that shines...
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    the scholars Conrad Dasypodius (il Dasipodio), Gerolamo Cardano, Francesco Maurolico, and Christopher Clavius. He was most famous for his central role...
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    d'Étaples and Robert Gaguin Gerasimos Vlachos (1607–1685), Venice Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575), mathematician and astronomer from Sicily Marco Basaiti...
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    mathematician (350 BC—323 BC) Caio Domenico Gallo, historian (1697–1780) Francesco Maurolico, astronomer, mathematician and humanist (1494–1575) Agostino Scilla...
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    crater impacts. It was named after 16th century Italian mathematician Francesco Maurolico. It is joined at the southeast rim by the smaller crater Barocius...
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    Vacca has written, as Freudenthal carefully showed) was that of Francesco Maurolico in his Arithmeticorum libri duo (1575), who used the technique to...
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    for the Platonic solids in 1537 in an unpublished manuscript by Francesco Maurolico. René Descartes, in around 1630, wrote his book De solidorum elementis...
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    physicist who recognized Boyle's Law and wrote about the nature of color Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575) – Benedictine who made contributions to the fields of...
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    the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, work by Guido Ubaldi, Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Evangelista Torricelli, Simon Stevin, Luca...
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  • Maternus Annie Russell Maunder Walter Maunder Pierre Louis Maupertuis Francesco Maurolico Antonia Maury James Clerk Maxwell Tobias Mayer - T. Mayer crater...
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  • Luca Gaurico Marino Ghetaldi Orazio Grassi Giovanni Antonio Magini Francesco Maurolico Fabrizio Mordente Matteo Ricci Ostilio Ricci Giuseppe Scala Niccolò...
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  • translated by the sixteenth century astronomer and mathematician Francesco Maurolico. The lunar crater Menelaus is named after him. The titles of a few...
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    the ancients, the mythological rape of Persephone took place. Also Francesco Maurolico, based on the identification of Hipponium with Bivona, situated there...
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  • engineer and mathematician Giovanni Aurispa (1376–1459), anthropologist Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575), mathematician Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia (1510–1580)...
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    Carlo Fracassati, Giacomo Gallo, Mario Giurba, Marcello Malpighi and Francesco Maurolico. The Athenaeum was refinanced in 1838 by King Ferdinando II, but...
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    squares; for this reason, in his book Arithmeticorum libri duo (1575), Francesco Maurolico called these numbers "pyramides quadratae secundae". The number of...
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    Camaro and Ebro) with Latin inscriptions by the scientist-humanist Francesco Maurolico who, probably, was also the creator of most of the Neoplatonic-alchemical...
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    Tantrasamgraha, which contains the Madhava's discoveries, 1548 - Francesco Maurolico attempted to calculate the barycenter of various bodies (pyramid...
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    However, according to the 19th century scholar Guillaume Libri, Francesco Maurolico (1494–1575) claimed to have found the result earlier. Libri nevertheless...
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  • Velho Cosmographia, a sixteenth-century treatise by the Italian Francesco Maurolico Cosmographia Blaviana, an alternative name for Joan Blaeu's Atlas...
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