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Born (Italy), 1566
Died 1624
Jesuit Giuseppe Biancani, a professor of mathematics at Parma, wrote about the nature of scientific observation at a time when scientific instruments (e.g., the telescope) were extending human senses. His Sphaera Mundi of 1620 included Biancani’s diagram of the telescopic Moon. Indeed, it was Biancani who is most deserving of credit for coining the word “telescope.”
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McColley, G. (1938). Josephus Blancanus and the Adoption of Our Word “Telescope.” Isis 28(2): 364.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Biancani, Giuseppe. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9021
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