Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio
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Doctor, clock-maker, polymath
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Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Padua
Why Is Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio , also known as Giovanni de' Dondi, was an Italian physician, astronomer and mechanical engineer in Padua, now in Italy. He is remembered today as a pioneer in the art of clock design and construction. The Astrarium, which he designed and built over a period of 16 years, was a highly complex astronomical clock and planetarium, constructed only 60 or so years after the very first all-mechanical clocks had been built in Europe, and demonstrated an ambitious attempt to describe and model the planetary system with mathematical precision and technological sophistication.
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