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FRISI, PAOLO (1728—1784)

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FRISI, See also:PAOLO (1728—1784) , See also:Italian mathematician and astronomer, was See also:born at See also:Milan on the 13th of See also:April 1728. He was educated at the Barnabite monastery and afterwards at See also:Padua. When twenty-one years of See also:age he composed a See also:treatise on the figure of the See also:earth, and the reputation which he soon acquired led to his See also:appointment by the See also:king of See also:Sardinia to the professorship of See also:philosophy in the See also:college of Casale. His friend-See also:ship with Radicati, a See also:man of liberal opinions, occasioned Frisi's removal by his clerical superiors to See also:Novara, where he was compelled to do See also:duty as a preacher. In 1753 he was elected a corresponding member of the See also:Paris See also:Academy of Sciences, and shortly afterwards he became See also:professor of philosophy in the Barnabite College of St See also:Alexander at Milan. An acrimonious attack by a See also:young Jesuit, about this See also:time, upon his dissertation on the figure of the earth laid the See also:foundation of his animosity against the See also:Jesuits, with whose enemies, including J. d'See also:Alembert, J. A. N. See also:Condorcet and other Encyclopedists, he later closely associated himself. In 1756 he was appointed by See also:Leopold, See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Tuscany, to the professorship of See also:mathematics in the university of See also:Pisa, a See also:post which he held for eight years. In 1757 he became an See also:associate of the Imperial Academy of St See also:Petersburg, and a See also:foreign member of the Royal Society of See also:London, and in 1758 a member of the Academy of See also:Berlin, in 1766 of that of See also:Stockholm, and in 1770 of the See also:Academies of See also:Copenhagen and of See also:Bern. From several See also:European crowned heads he received, at various times, marks of See also:special distinction, and the empress Maria See also:Theresa granted him a yearly See also:pension of too sequins (5o).

In 1764 he was created professor of mathematics in the See also:

palatine See also:schools at Milan, and obtained from See also:Pope See also:Pius VI. See also:release from ecclesiastical See also:jurisdiction, and authority to become a See also:secular See also:priest. In 1766 he visited See also:France and See also:England, and in 1768 See also:Vienna. In 1777 he became director of a school of See also:architecture at Milan. His knowledge of See also:hydraulics caused him to be frequently consulted with respect to the management of canals and other watercourses in various parts of See also:Europe. It was through his means that See also:lightning-conductors were first introduced into See also:Italy for the See also:protection of buildings. He died on the 22nd of See also:November 1784. His publications include:—Disquisitio mathematica in causam physicam figurae et magnitudinis terrae (Milan, 1751) ; , Saggio 'della morale filosofia (See also:Lugano, 1753) ; Nova electricitatis theoria (Milan, 1755) ; Dissertatio de motu diurno terrae (Pisa, 1758) ; Dissertationes variae (2 vols. 4to, See also:Lucca, 1759, 1761); Del modo di regolare i fiumi e i torrenli (Lucca, 1762); Cosmographia physica et mathematica (Milan, 1774, 1775, 2 vols. 4to, his See also:chief See also:work) ; Dell' architetlura, statica e idraulica (Milan, 1777) ; and other See also:treatises. See Verri, Memorie . . . del signor dom Paolo Frisi (Milan, 1787), 4to; See also:Fabbroni, Elogj d' illustri Italiani," Atti di Milano, vol. ii.; J. C.

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Poggendorff, Biograph. litierar. Ilandworterbuch, vol. i.

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