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

Orthographe également utilisé:
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe

Curriculum Vitae

* 18.05.1711	Dubrovnik	Né
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	Décédé

Collections

Les temps modernes, 1500-1780

Littérature

De centro gravitatis : dissertatio publice propugnata in Collegio Romano
Auteur: Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
Publié: 1751

Littérature secondaire

Opere di Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich
Auteur: Ceccarelli, Marco
Publié: 2013

Images

Portrait of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boskovich in postal stamp

Detail portrait of Ruggiero Giuseppe Boskovich

Permanent links

DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=20732004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_20732004.html

Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711 - 1787)

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