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    Giuseppe Biancani, SJ (Latin: Josephus Blancanus; 8 March 1566 – 7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after...
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    1612 that described the device in print. Shortly afterward, in 1617 Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram. The device at this time could not...
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  • Santorio Sanctorius makes the first thermometer for medical use. 1617 — Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope 1624 — The word...
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    Blancanus is named after the Jesuit astronomer and natural philosopher, Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624). By convention these features are identified on lunar...
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  • Baldi Francesco Barozzi Giambattista Benedetti Rutilio Benincasa Giuseppe Biancani Rafael Bombelli Girolamo Cardano Pietro Antonio Cataldi Bonaventura...
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    acquired a strong reputation in the scientific field, given that Fathers Giuseppe Biancani, Niccolò Cabeo and Mario Bettinus, all members of the order, taught...
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  • Santorio Santorio, put a numerical scale on a thermoscope. 1617 – Giuseppe Biancani publishes first clear diagram of thermoscope 1638 – Robert Fludd describes...
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    The first clear diagram of a thermoscope was published in 1617 by Giuseppe Biancani (1566 – 1624);: 10  the first showing a scale and thus constituting...
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    knowledge of his day. Varenius followed the Sphaera mundi (1620) of Giuseppe Biancani, though he also introduced ideas that had come into thinking during...
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    mathematician and astronomer; lunar crater Bettinus named after him Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624) – Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer...
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