Giovanni Antonelli
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Died | 14 January 1872 Florence, Italy | (aged 53)
Nationality | Italian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Giovanni Antonelli (1 October 1818 – 14 January 1872) was an Italian scientist, astronomer and engineer.[1]
Antonelli was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. A Catholic priest, he was director of the Ximenian Observatory of Florence from 1851 until his death.
In 1858 he installed a lightning rod designed by himself and on the Florence cathedral. Again with Father Cecchi, he collaborated in the design of a prototype of internal combustion engine with and Felice Matteucci. Father Antonelli wrote numerous treatises, concerning various arguments from astronomy to mathematics, hydraulics and others; he also published a comment to astronomical passages in the Divine Comedy.[2]
Works[]
- Sulle dottrine astronomiche della Divina Commedia (in Italian). Firenze: Tipografia Calasanziana. 1865.
Sulle dottrine astronomiche della Divina Commedia, 1865
See also[]
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References[]
- ^ A. Stiattesi Necr. Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine: Bull. Boncompagni 5 (1872), 253–276
- ^ Giovanni Antonelli. Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Further reading[]
N. Tommaseo Giovanni Antonelli: Commemorazione (1872) (in Italian)
- 1818 births
- 1872 deaths
- People from Pistoia
- 19th-century Italian astronomers
- 19th-century Italian mathematicians
- Engineers from Florence
- Italian science writers
- Italian technology writers
- Catholic clergy scientists