Giuseppe Biancani
Italian mathematician and selenographer · Academics · Lived 1566 to 1624 · aged 58
Giuseppe Biancani was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.
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Biancani was one of the most able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620, 1630, 1635, and 1653.
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1566 to 1624 · aged 58
