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BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO (1608-1679)

BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO (1608-1679) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian physiologist and physicist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Naples on the 28th of See also:

JANUARY

January 16o8. He was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of mathematics_ at See also:

MESSINA

Messina in 1649 and at See also:

Pisa in 1656. In 1667 he returned to Messina, but in 1674 was obliged to retire to See also:

Rome, where he lived under the See also:

PROTECTION

protection of See also:

Christina, See also:

queen of See also:

Sweden, and died on the 31st of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1679. His best-known See also:

WORK

work is De motu animalium (Rome, 168o-1681), in which he sought to explain the movements of the See also:

animal See also:

BODY

body on See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical principles; he thus ranks as the founder of the iatrophysical school. In a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, Del movimento della cemeta apparsa it mese di decembre 1664, published in 1665 under the See also:

PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

Pier Maria Mutoli, he was the first to suggest the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of a parabolic path; and another of his astronomical See also:

WORKS

works was Theorica mediceorum See also:

PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

planet arum ex causis physicis deducta (See also:

Florence, 1666), in which he considered the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of attraction on the satellites of See also:

JUPITER

Jupiter. He also wrote: Della Causa delle Febbri maligni (Pisa, 1658); De Renum usu Judicium (See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, 1664); Euclides Restitutus (Pisa, 1658); Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri v., vi. et vii. (Florence, 1661); De vi percussionis (See also:

Bologna, 1667); Meteorologia Aetnea (Reggio, 1669); and De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus (Bologna, 1670).

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