Vincentio Reinieri
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Vincentio Reinieri | |
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Born | 30 March 1606 |
Died | 5 November 1642 | (aged 36)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, astronomer |
Vincentio (Vincenzio, Vincenzo) Reinieri (Renieri, Reiner) (30 March 1606 – 5 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He was a friend and disciple of Galileo Galilei.
Biography
Born at
Reinieri's work led him to Arcetri, where he befriended Vincenzo Viviani. Reinieri enjoyed the same spirit of inquiry and love of debate as his mentor. On 5 February 1641 Reinieri wrote to Galileo from Pisa: "Not infrequently I am in some battle with the Peripatetic gentlemen, particularly when I note that those fattest with ignorance least appreciate your worth, and I have just given the head of one of those a good scrubbing." (Drake, p. 413-4)
Reinieri became professor of mathematics at the
Reinieri's observations of Jupiter's moons remained unpublished at the time of his premature death at Pisa in 1647. He was succeeded to the chair of mathematics by Famiano Michelini (c. 1600-1666).
Legacy
On Reinieri's death, papers concerning longitude entrusted to him by Galileo are said to have been stolen by a man named Giuseppe Agostini (Fahie, p. 374). However, scholars such as Antonio Favaro doubt whether this theft actually occurred (see Antonio Favaro, Documenti inediti per la Storia dei MSS. Galileiani, Rome, 1886, pp. 8–14).
The crater Reiner on the Moon is named after him.
Latin works
- Expugnata Hierusalem, poema, Publisher: Maceratae, Apud Petrum Salvionum (1628) [1]
- Tabulae mediceae secundorum mobilium universales quibus per unicum prosthaphaereseon orbis canonem planetarum calculus exhibetur. Non solum tychonicè iuxta Rudolphinas Danicas & Lansbergianas, sed etiam iuxta Prutenicas Alphonsinas & Ptolemaicas, Publisher: Florentiae, typis nouis Amatoris Massae & Laurentij de Landis (1639) [2]
- Tabulae Mediceae secundorum mobilium uniuersales (in Latin). Firenze: Amadore Massi & Lorenzo Landi. 1639.
- Tabulæ motuum cælestium universales : serenissimi magni ducis etruriæ Ferdinandi II. auspicijs primo editæ, & Mediceæ nuncupati, nunc vero auctæ, recognitæ, atque... Bernardini Fernandez de Velasco... iussu, ac sumptibus recusæ...Publisher: Florentiæ : typis Amatoris Massæ Foroliuien., 1647 [3]
Sources
- Drake, Stillman, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 464. ISBN 0-226-16226-5
- Fahie, J.J., Galileo: His Life and Work (London: John Murray, 1903), 374-5. - Google Books
Further reading
- A Selection from Italian Prose Writers: with a double translation: for the use of students of the Italian language on the Hamiltonian system, London, Hunt and Clark, 1828 - Google Books. Letters of Galileo to Renieri: pp. 142–147 (no images for remainder of letter), and pp. 242–253 (no images pp, 246-250).