Stjepan Gradić
Reverend Stjepan Gradić | |
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Parent(s) | Michele Gradi and Maria Gradi (née Benessa) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Roman College Collegio Clementino University of Bologna |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical scholar, mathematician |
School or tradition | Aristotelianism Scholasticism |
Institutions | Vatican Library |
Influenced | Roger Joseph Boscovich |
Stjepan Gradić, also known as Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; 6 March 1613 – 2 May 1683).
Biography
Stijepo's parents were Miho Gradi (Gradić) and Marija Benessa (Beneša). He was born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Republic of Ragusa, where he was first schooled. He moved to Rome by the order of his uncle, a vicar general of Ragusa, Petar Benessa. In Rome and in Bologna he studied philosophy, theology, law and mathematics. His mathematics professor in Rome was Bonaventura Cavalieri and in Bologna his mathematics professor was Benedetto Castelli. He became a priest in 1643, the year he returned home and soon became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St. Cosmas and Damian on the island of Pašman, canon of cathedral choir in Ragusa and Ragusan deputy Archbishop. After a private trip to Rome he remained there until his death as the official diplomatic representative of the Republic of Ragusa to the Holy See. Since 1682 he was the head of the Vatican Library.[1]
Gradić was a
His philosophical works are written in the spirit of
Along with
See also
- List of notable Ragusans
- Dalmatia
- House of Gradić
References
- ^ a b c d "Gradić, Stjepan (in Croatian)". enciklopedija.lzmk.hr. Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ "Stjepan Gradić - father of the homeland". Dubrovnik.com (in Croatian). 11 September 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ^ Stephanus Gradius (1680). "De loco Galilaei quo punctum lineae aequale pronuntiat, Dissertationes physico-mathematicae quatuor (written in 1661)". Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium: 39–54.
- ^ I. Martinović (1992). "Cavalieri, Fabri and Gradić on Galileo's paradox (in Croatian)" (PDF). Dubrovnik Annals. 30: 79–91.
- ^ I. Martinović (1997). "Stjepan Gradić on Galileo's paradox of the bowl". Dubrovnik Annals. 1: 31–69.
- ^ Stephanus Gradius (1680). "De causa naturali motus accelerati & aequalibus ejus in descensu corporum gravium ad aequalia momenta temporum incrementis, Dissertationes physico-mathematicae quatuor". Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium: 22–38.
- ^ Stephanus Gradius (1680). "Dissertatio de directione navis ope gubernaculi, Dissertationes physico-mathematicae quatuor". Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium.
- ^ Stephanus Gradius (1680). "De situ stellae polaris, Dissertationes physico-mathematicae quatuor". Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium.
External links
- ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.