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    Flavio Gioia or Gioja, also known as Ioannes Gira Amalphensis (Italian pronunciation: [ˈflaːvjo ˈdʒɔːja]; c. 1300 – ?) is reputed to have been an Italian...
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  • (born 1945), Argentine politician Flavio Gioja (born c. 1300), probable Italian mariner and inventor José Luis Gioja (born 1949), Argentine politician...
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    of the Moon. It is named after the alleged Italian inventor of compass Flavio Gioia. As it lies so close to the northern limb, it is viewed nearly from...
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    round trips a year to the Levant, instead of one. Between 1295 and 1302, Flavio Gioja converted the compass from a needle floating in water to what we use...
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    was already common. Its development, in European history, was due to Flavio Gioja from Amalfi. In the 13th century, Peter Peregrinus, a native of Maricourt...
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    reading of a passage by the humanist Flavio Biondo, the invention of the compass was long attributed to Flavio Gioja from Amalfi. Despite the tenacious...
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  • Galilei Luigi Galvani Gasparo da Salò Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Flavio Gioja Giuseppe di Giugno Guido of Arezzo Candido Jacuzzi Pedro Kanof Ruggero...
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  • Willard Gibbs Grove Karl Gilbert William Gilbert Friedrich Karl Ginzel Flavio Gioja Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. Louis Godin Camillo Golgi Benjamin A. Gould Ivan...
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    House of Savoy. In 1875, he went to Rome, and in 1900, his statue of Flavio Gioja won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, one year before...
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  • Karl Ginzel (1850–1926) WGPSN Gioja 83°21′N 1°46′E / 83.35°N 1.76°E / 83.35; 1.76 (Gioja) 42.47 1935 Flavio Gioja (flourished 1302) WGPSN Giordano...
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