Roger Joseph Boscovich
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Roger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.
Portrait by Robert Edge Pine, London, 1760.
French translation of Bošković's De solis ac lunae defectibus.
The first page of figures from Theoria Philosophiæ Naturalis from 1763. Figure 1 is the force curve which received so much attention from later natural philosophers such as Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, and Michael Faraday. The ordinate is force, with positive values being repulsive, and the abscissa is radial distance. Newton's gravitational attractive force is clearly seen at the far right of figure 1.
Opening page "Theoria philosophiae naturalis"
Dalmatian Italians
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Dalmatian Italians are the historical Italian national minority living in the region of Dalmatia, now part of Croatia and Montenegro.
Overview of Zara (now Zadar in Croatian Dalmatia), where Dalmatian Italians are about 0.13% of the population. In 1921, before the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus, the Dalmatian Italians were 70% of the city's population.
1807: Dalmatia inside the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
"Distribution of Races in Austria–Hungary" from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.
Zadar Cathedral