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Tito Livio Burattini

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Italian-Polish inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker

AcademicsLived 1617 to 1681 · aged 64
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Tito Livio Burattini was an inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer and nobleman. He spent his working life in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was born in Agordo, Republic of Venice, and studied in Padua and Venice.

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Tito Livio Burattini was an inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer and nobleman. He spent his working life in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was born in Agordo, Republic of Venice, and studied in Padua and Venice. In 1639, he explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves; both Burattini and Sir Isaac Newton used measurements made by Greaves in an attempt to accurately determine the circumference of the earth.

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Lived 1617 to 1681 · aged 64
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