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Reverend Giuseppe Biancani | |
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 Biancani's hand-drawn map of the Moon, based on naked-eye observations, showing 15 stylized craters. | |
| Born | March 8, 1566 |
| Died | June 7, 1624 (aged 58) |
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| Alma mater | Roman College |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Clavius |
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| School or tradition | Aristotelianism |
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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 whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.[2] Biancani was one of the most able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620, 1630, 1635, and 1653.[3]
- ^ Carolino, Luís Miguel (2007). "Cristoforo Borri and the epistemological status of mathematics in seventeenth-century Portugal". Historia Mathematica. 34 (2): 187–205. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2006.05.002.
- ^ USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
- ^ McColley 1938, p. 365.