Francesco Comelli (1744 in Parigi – 1816 in Bologna)[1] was an Italian scientific instrument maker with considerable expertise in foundry and metalworking.[2]
Comelli was a skilled craftsman who made machines, instruments, and clocks, and an innovator in the design of metal presses.[3] In 1780 he was appointed "regulator" of the public clock in Bologna.[2] A device designed by Comelli was used by Gianbattista Guglielmini in experiments to measure the rotation of the earth in 1791.[4]
- ^ Miniati, Mara, ed. Museo di storia della scienza: catalogo. Taylor & Francis, 1991. p210
- ^ a b Museo Galileo. "Francesco Comelli". Catalogue of the Museo Galileo's Instruments on Display. catalogue.museogalileo.it
- ^ Cooper, Denis R. (1988). The art and craft of coinmaking: a history of minting technology. Spink & Son Ltd. p. 59. ISBN 9780907605270.
- ^ Meli, Domenico Bertoloni (2002). "St. Peter and the Rotation of the Earth". In Harman, Peter M.; Shapiro, Alan E. (eds.). The investigation of difficult things: essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of DT Whiteside. Cambridge University Press. p. 428. ISBN 9780521374354.