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Frisi, Paolo (1728 - 1784)


 
Teacher, designer

Paolo Frisi was professor at University of Pisa and Milan in the period of 1755-1784 by carrying out an intense activity for teaching, research, and design in several fields of mechanical engineering, but with specific interests on mechanics of rigid bodies. 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 . He is believed to have first formulated correctly the composition of instantaneous rotations.
Mechanics of machinery, machine design, rational mechanics
   
variant spelling:
Frisi, Paolo
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 13.04.1728 Milano born
15.10.1744 he became barnabita priest
1756 member of Royal Society of London
1756 Pisa professor at University of Pisa
1763 Milano professor of Mechanics, Hydrometrics and practical Architecture at the Palatine School in Milan
1774 Milano publication of "Cosmographia physica et matematica" in Milan
† 22.11.1784 Milano died
Collections
Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780
Industrial Revolution, ca. 1780-1850
Literature
 
thumbnail of20775009 Tomus Primus - Algebram et Geometriam Analyticam Continens
Author: Frisi, Paolo
Published: 1782
thumbnail of21391009 Tomus Secundus - Mechanicam Universam et Mechanicae Applicationem ad Aquarum fluentium, Theoriam Continens
Author: Frisi, Paolo
Published: 1783
thumbnail of21392009 Tomus Tertius - Cosmographiam Physicam, et Mathematicam Continens
Author: Frisi, Paolo
Published: 1785
thumbnail of30792009 Instituzioni di Meccanica, d' Idrostatica, d'Idrometria, e dell'Architettura Statica e Idraulica
Author: Frisi, Paolo
Published: 1777
 
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Portrait of Paolo Frisi in 1774
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Portrait of Paolo Frisi
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