Giovanni di Casali
Giovanni (or Johannes) di Casali (or da Casale; c. 1320 – after 1374) was a
theologian, author of works on theology and science, and a papal legate
.
He was born in
Frederick of Sicily.[2]
About 1346 he wrote a treatise De velocitate motus alterationis (On the Velocity of the Motion of Alteration) which was subsequently printed in Venice in 1505. In it he presented a graphical analysis of the motion of accelerated bodies. His teachings in mathematical physics influenced scholars at the University of Padua and, it is believed, may have ultimately influenced the similar ideas presented over two centuries later by Galileo Galilei.[3]
See also
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References
- ^ ‘Giovanni da Casale’, Enciclopedie on line, Treccani.
- ^ Maarten van der Heijden and Bert Roest, ‘Franaut-J’, Franciscan Authors, 13th – 18th Century: A Catalogue in Progress.
- ^ Marshall Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages, (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1959), pp. 332-3, 382-391, 644
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