Paolo Casati

"Casatus" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Casatus (crater).
Reverend
Paolo Casati
Born(1617-11-23)23 November 1617
Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
Died22 December 1707(1707-12-22) (aged 90)
Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
Occupations
  • Mathematician
  • Physicist
Known forhis contributions to physics experiments and observations
Parent(s)Lodovico Casati and Vittoria Casati (née de' Punginibbi)
Academic background
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineMathematician, Physicist
Institutions
Notable studentsFrancesco Lana de Terzi[2]
InfluencedGaspar Schott[1]

Paolo Casati (in Latin, Paulus Casatus) (23 November 1617 – 22 December 1707) was an Italian Jesuit mathematician. He belonged to the jesuit scientific school founded in the Provincia Veneta by Giuseppe Biancani, and represented later by Niccolò Cabeo, Niccolò Zucchi, Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi.

  1. ^ a b c d e De Ferrari 1978.
  2. ^ Preti, Cesare (2004). "LANA TERZI, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 63: Labroca–Laterza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.