Orazio Grassi SJ (b. Savona 1 May 1583 – d. Rome 23 July 1654) was an Italian Jesuit priest, who is best noted as a mathematician, astronomer and architect. He was one of the authors in controversy with Galileo Galilei on the nature of comets. His writings against Galileo were published under the pseudonym Sarsi.[1]
- ^ Pietro Redondi, Galileo Heretic, Princeton University Press, 1987. p.196