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
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"
The Brera Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Brera district of Milan, Italy. It is currently operated by the National Institute for Astrophysics and the Institute of Applied General Phy
(ca. 1886-1890)
Original wooden model of the Brera Astronomical Observatory exhibited at Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan.