Giovanni Poleni

Marquis Giovanni Poleni , (Venice, 1683 - Padoue, 1761), Mathematician and Italian Physicist

The marquis Giovanni Poleni is known mainly like a physicist of reputation. Its scientific research is undertaken in parallel with research in Architecture and Archéologie which made it so famous that the Pope invited it to Rome to examine the dome Basilique Saint-Pierre and to propose to him ideas of protection in the event of movement of this dome. He worked on several projects of hydraulic work in Lombardy and became thus one of the most asked experts on the matter. He occupied the pulpit of Astronomie to Padoue, then that of mathematics with died of Nicolas Bernoulli (1719). Elected like foreign member with the Academy of Science (Paris, London, Berlin and Holy Petersbourg), it maintained a correspondence followed with Euler, Maupertuis and the brothers Bernoulli. In 1740 it founded the " Téatro di filosofia sperimentale ", the first Physical laboratory of created in an Italian university, gathering an important whole of scientific instruments intended for research and the experimentation. It had gathered itself an important cabinet of scientific instruments and had invented several machines and apparatuses including one Calculatrice in 1709.

Publications

Miscellanea. Hoc is I. Dissertatio de Barometris, & Thermometris, II. Machinae Arithmeticae, eiusque usus descriptio, III . De Sectionibus Conicis parallelorum in horologiis solaribus tractatus. Venice, Aloysius Pavinus 1709
De Motu Aquae misto libri duet. Quibus multa nova pertinentia AD Aestuaria, AD Portus, atque AD Flumina continentur . Patavii Iosephi Comini 1717 . Study of water moving, speed on a Stopping, Flow, food of the Channels, etc
De Mathesis in rebus physicis utilitate praelectio . Patavii Typis Iosephi Comini 1720 . Poleni added at the end of its work a chapter on: Of observatione defectus lunae .
Epistolarum Mathematicarum fasciculus . Patavii 1729 . These letters reflect the multiple centers d" interest of Poleni: mathematics, anatomy, physics, astronomy. They are addressed to G. Manfredi, J.G. Marinoni, Grown Guido. One finds there, in appendix with a letter with Manfredi, the extremely rare text of Jean Buteo: Of fluentis aquae will mensura .
In the Best manner of measuring on sea the way of a Vessel, independently of the astronomical observations. Part which gained the price of the Royal Academy of Sciences suggested for the year 1733, according to the foundation made by fire Mr. Rouillé of Meslay, former Adviser at the Parliament . Paris, Royal Printing works, 1734. This work contains the description of a new apparatus of its invention to calculate the speed of the ships.

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