Francesco Maria Grimaldi
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Italian physicist
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Francesco Maria Grimaldi's Degrees
- Doctorate Physics University of Bologna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was born in Bologna to Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani. Work Between 1640 and 1650, working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken. Grimaldi and Riccioli also made a calculation of gravity at the earth's surface by recording the oscillations of an accurate pendulum.
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