Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ( Jean-Alphonse Borelli ) (January 28th 1608, Naples - December 31st 1679) is a Mathématicien, doctor and physiologist Italy N.

Born with Naples in 1608, it teaches the Mathématiques with Messine starting from 1635. Thereafter, it is interested in the Anatomie and the Physiologie while continuing to teach mathematics.

In 1656, it obtains the pulpit of mathematics to the Université of Pisa and founds the accademia degli investigandi which treats Médecine, of physiology, mathematics and of Physique.

It is interested in the Astronomie and installs in 1665 a astronomical observatory in San Miniato. It has a presentiment of that the circular trajectory of planets is due to the combination of a centrifugal force and a centripetal force but rejects the concept of attraction.

In 1674, it leaves Messine for Rome where it launches out in a great medical work, Of muto animalium which will be published after its death (1680 - 1681, translated into French by Alexis Giraud-Teulon in 1857) and where it tries to explain the movements of the body of the animals thanks to principles of Mécanique. He is regarded as the father of biomechanics. He wrote also on mechanics, astronomy, physics, and gave editions of Euclide and Apollonius de Perga, 1661 with Latin translation. He had expressed as of 1666 the idea of the universal Gravitation, shown since by Isaac Newton.

Partial bibliography

Beyond cagioni delle febbri malignant (Pisa, 1658);
Euclides Restitutus (Pisa, 1658);
Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri v., VI. and vii (Florence, 1661);
Of VI percussionis (Bologna, 1667);
Meteorologia Aetnea (Reggio, 1669);
Of motionibus naturalibus has gravitate pendentibus (Bologna, 1670).

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