Domenico Cocoli

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Proposizioni fisico-matematiche, 1775

Domenico Cocoli (1747–1812) was an Italian mathematician^[1][2] and physicist, especially active on hydraulics.^[3] He was a top physicist of the late Republic of Venice, then of the Napoleonic Italian Republic.^[3]

Biography[]

Born in Brescia in 1747, he begun studying architecture and later was awarded a pension by a wealthy patron to continue his studies.^[3] In 1774 he had the chair of physics and mathematics. In 1777 he published his Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry.^[3] Thanks to the fame of the book, he became a consultant of the Republic of Venice being among the five physicists who took care of the problem of the floodings of the Brenta river.^[3] Until 1797 he carried out various assignments.^[3] In 1802 he was appointed member of the Collegio dei Dotti of the Napoleonic Italian Republic.^[3]

Works[]

• Cocoli, Domenico (1775). Proposizioni fisico-matematiche (in Italian). In Brescia: Francesco Ragnoli.

• Cocoli, Domenico (1783). Dissertazione sopra il quesito Stabilire la vera teoria delle acque uscenti da' fori aperti ne' vasi, e mostrare in quai circostanze possa ella applicarsi alle acque correnti negli alvei naturali (in Italian). Brescia: Stamperia Flli Pasini.

• Cocoli, Domenico (1792). Elementi di geometria e trigonometria ad uso delle scuole pubbliche dell'illustrissima città di Brescia (in Italian). Brescia: dalla stamperia Pasini.

See also[]

• Drainage basin
• Trigonometry
• Communicating vessels
• Brescia

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