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Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711 - 1787)


 
teacher, founder

Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich was professor at Collegio Romano di Roma and Università di Pavia since 1740 by carrying out an intense activity for teaching, research, and design in several fields of physics mechanics, but with specific interests on mechanics. He was a personality of reference in his time within national and international frames because of a recognized reputation of his works that still today are considered of fundamental importance in mechanics of rigid bodies.
Mechanics of machinery, rational mechanics
   
variant spelling:
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 18.05.1711 Dubrovnik born
1727 he became jesuit priest
1740 - 1760 Roma professor of mathematics at the Roman College of Rome
1758 he published the treatise Philosophiae naturalis theoria
1763 Brera, Milano founder of the astronomy observatory in Brera
1763 Pavia professor of mathematics at the University of Pavia
† 17.02.1787 Milano died
Collections
Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780
Literature
 
thumbnail of30793009 De centro gravitatis : dissertatio publice propugnata in Collegio Romano
Author: Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
Published: 1751
 
Secondary literature
 
thumbnail of29600009 Opere di Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich
Author: Ceccarelli, Marco
Published: 2013
 
Images
 
Portrait of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boskovich in postal stamp
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Portrait of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boskovich
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Detail portrait of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boskovich
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