Giorgini, Gaetano (1795 - 1874)

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Gaetano Giorgini was professor at Università di Firenze e Pisa in the period before 1850 by carrying out activity for teaching and research mainly with works on mathematics among which relevant are those on kinematics and statics. He was pupil of the Ecole Polytechncique in Paris where he establish a long friendship with l Michel Chasles. He was a personality of reference in his time within regional frames because of a recognized reputation of his works that still today are considered of fundamental importance in theoretical kinematics.
Mechanics of machinery, theoretical kinematics, kinematics of mechanisms

variant spelling:
Giorgini, Gaetano

Curriculum vitae

* 15.06.1795	Montignano (Lucca)	born
1815	Firenze	Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence
1825	Pisa	Emeritus professor at the University of Pisa. He studies at the Polytechnique in Paris
1836		He published the book “Intorno alle proprietà geometriche dei movimenti…”
1849		Minister of the Grand Duchy of Toscana
* 1859		Senator of the Italian Kingdom
† 16.09.1874	Montignano (Lucca)	dead

Collections

		Industrial Revolution, ca. 1780-1850
		Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920

Literature

Memorie di Matematica
Author: Giorgini, Gaetano
Published: 1836

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Giorgini, Gaetano (1795 - 1874)