Bonaventura Cavalieri
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Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculu
Illustration of Cavalieri from Trattato della sfera (1682)
Geometrical figures from Lo Speccio Ustorio, used in proofs of properties of parabolic reflecting surfaces.
The frontispiece of the Geometria indivisibilibus.
Monument to Cavalieri by Giovanni Antonio Labus, Palazzo di Brera, Milan, 1844
Carlo Antonio Manzini
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Conte Carlo Antonio Manzini was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.. Manzini was one of the best scholars of astronomy and optics of his time.
Le comete ("The comets"), 1665
