Benedetto Castelli
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Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his religious name that he adopted when he entered the Benedictine Order in 1595.
Benedetto Castelli
Opuscoli filosofici, Brescia, 1669
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was an Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician who is often described as the father of biomechanics. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigat
Benedetto Castelli
…telling Galileo of it for the first time, or responding to Galileo having previously informed him of it. Castelli died in Rome. His students included Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Raffaello Magiotti, Antonio Nardi, and Evangelista Torricelli, the inventor of the barometer and an early proponent of the air pump. He recommended…
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
De Motu Animalium I's cover
Submarine, by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, in De Motu Animalium, 1680
De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670