Pietro Mengoli
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Pietro Mengoli was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained as professor th
Title-page from Novae quadraturae arithmeticae, by Pietro Mengoli. 1650.
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
Pietro Mengoli
…Pietro Mengoli (1626 – June 7, 1686) was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained as professor there for the next 39 years of his life. Mengoli was a pivotal figure…
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