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Teacher, inventor
Egnazio Danti, mathematician, cosmographer and architect, was also interested in descriptive geometry. He was taught by his grandfather Pier Vincenzo to build various mechanical devices. During the early years of his youth he worked at the goldsmith's shop of his father, learning the mechanics and how to build different types of instruments that later described in his works.
Who-is-Who in MMS, descriptive geometry, architect, teacher, inventor, treatizer, constructor of mechanical devices
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variant spelling:
Danti, Egnazio (real name Carlo Pellegrino)
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1536
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Perugia
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born
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1555
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he entered the domenican order
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1562
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Firenze
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he went to Florence to serve Cosimo I Medici
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1569
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he publishes “Trattato sull’astrolabio” (treatise on astrolabe)
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1576 - 1583
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Bologna
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he became professor of mathemathic in Bologna University
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1580
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he went to Rome to serve the Pope Gregorius XIII
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1583
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he became bishop of Alatri
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† 19.10.1586
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Alatri
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died
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