Giuseppe Biancani
Italian mathematician and selenographer
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- Doctorate Mathematics University of Bologna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giuseppe Biancani, SJ was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named. Biography Giuseppe Biancani was born in Bologna in 1566, entered the Jesuit Order in 1592, and studied at the College of Brescia with Marco Antonio De Dominis, and at the Academy of Mathematics in the Roman College with Clavius. Between 1596 and 1599 he lived in Padua, where he completed his studies and befriended Galileo, who had been appointed professor of mathematics at the local university in 1592. When the Jesuits were expelled from the Republic of Venice in 1606 Biancani went to Parma where he taught mathematics in the Jesuit College until his death in 1624.
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