# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-demisiani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:36:46.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-demisiani"
name: "Giovanni Demisiani"
slug: "giovanni-demisiani"
description: "Giovanni Demisiani, a Greek from Zakynthos, was a theologian, chemist, mathematician to Cardinal Gonzaga, and member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Demisiani is noted for coining the name telescope for a version of the instrument presented by Galileo Galilei to the Accademia dei Lincei at a banquet honoring Galileo’s induction into the Accademia in 1611."
tagline: "Greek mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
deathDate: "1614"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.472894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Димисианос, Иоаннис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%89%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Ιωάννης Δημησιάνος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Demisiani"
    title: "Giovanni Demisiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E7%93%A6%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E7%B1%B3%E8%A5%BF%E4%BA%9A%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "乔瓦尼·德米西亚尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Demisiani"
    title: "Giovanni Demisiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Demisiani"
    title: "Giovanni Demisiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4443552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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