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See also:BALDI, BERNARDINO (1533-1617) , See also:Italian mathematician and See also:miscellaneous writer, was descended of a See also:noble See also:family at See also:Urbino, in which See also:city he was See also:born on the 6th of See also:June 1533. He pursued his studies at See also:Padua with extraordinary zeal and success, and is said to have acquired, during the course of his See also:life, no fewer than sixteen See also:languages, though according to See also:Tiraboschi the inscription on his See also:tomb limits the number to twelve. The See also:appearance of the See also:plague at Padua obliged him to retire to his native city,.whence he was, shortly afterwards, called to See also:act as See also:tutor to Ferrante (See also:Ferdinand) See also:Gonzaga, from whom he received the See also:rich See also:abbey of See also:Guastalla. He held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot for twenty-five years, and then retired to his native See also:town. In 1612 he was employed by the See also:duke as his See also:envoy to See also:Venice, where he distinguished himself by the congratulatory oration he delivered before the Venetian See also:senate on the See also:election of the new See also:doge, See also:Andrea Memmo. Baldi died at Urbino on the 12th of See also:October 1617. He was, perhaps, the most universal See also:genius of his See also:age, and is said to have written upwards of a See also:hundred different See also:works, the See also:chief See also:part of which have remained unpublished. His various works give satisfactory See also:evidence of his abilities as a theologian, mathematician, geographer, See also:antiquary, historian and poet. The Cronica dei Matematici (published at Urbino in 1707) is an abridgment of a larger See also:work, on which he had bestowed twelve years of labour, and which was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians. His life has been written by Affd, Mazzuchelli and others.
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