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SANTINI, GIOVANNI (1787-1877)

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SANTINI, GIOVANNI (1787-1877) , See also:Italian astronomer, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:January 1787 at Caprese, in the See also:province of See also:Arezzo. He was from 1813 See also:professor of See also:astronomy at the university and director of the See also:observatory at See also:Padua. He wrote Elementi di astronomia (2 vols. 1820, 2nd ed. 1830), Teoria degli stromenti ottici (2 vols. 1828), and many scientific See also:memoirs and notices, among which are five catalogues of telescopic stars between +Io° and -15° See also:declination, from observations made at the Padua observatory. He died on the 26th of See also:June 1877. See Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 90; See also:Month. Not. See also:Roy. Astr.

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