Restoro d'Arezzo
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Ristoro or Restoro d'Arezzo was an Italian monk of the 13th century.
Restoro d'Arezzo was the author of Composizione del Mondo (Composition of the World),[1] written c. 1282. It was the first astronomical work to be written in Italian (Tuscan).[2] It contains also, as its title suggests, geological theories: these covered the internal structure of a spherical shell Earth, fossils, and erosion, amongst others.
He observed a solar eclipse in 1239 and noted the exact time spent in totality.[3]
It has been claimed that Dante was familiar with Ristoro’s work.[4] Dante in the dated to 1320 did consider related matters.[5]
References[]
- Alberto Morino (editor) (Lavis, 2006), La composizione del mondo, Restoro d'Arezzo
Notes[]
- ^ Called a ‘vernacular astronomy primer’
- ^ In fact the first scientific work in Italian; see the external link. Also it is the first Italian prose work.
- ^ Peter Pesic Sky in a Bottle Cambridge MA:2005- MIT Press Page 27
- ^ Dante Alighieri.
- ^ There has been some past scholarly controversy over whether this work really is by Dante.
External links[]
- (in Italian) PDF on the mineralogy of the Compositione with English summary here as HTML
Categories:
- 13th-century Italian Christian monks
- Italian male writers
- 13th-century Italian writers
- 13th-century Italian astronomers