# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fabrizio-mordente
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:13.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fabrizio-mordente"
name: "Fabrizio Mordente"
slug: "fabrizio-mordente"
description: "Fabrizio Mordente was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his invention of the \"proportional eight-pointed compass\" which has two arms with cursors that allow the solution of problems in measuring the circumference, area and angles of a circle. In 1567 he published a single sheet treatise in Venice showing illustrations of his device."
tagline: "Italian mathematician and philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mordente%2C_Fabrizio_%E2%80%93_Propositioni%2C_1598_%E2%80%93_BEIC_IE1202491.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1532"
deathDate: "1608"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669942666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Fabrizio Mordente"
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    title: "Fabrizio Mordente"
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    title: "Fabrizio Mordente"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Морденте, Фабрицио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump