Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

1608-1679

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

(Italian)

(6 November 1608 − 31 December 1679)

Italian physiologist and physicist, professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa. Author of De motu animalium (1680–81), explaining animal movement on mechanical principles; in 1665 he was the first to suggest a parabolic path for comets, and his Theoria mediceorum planetarum ex causis physicis deducta (1666) considered gravitational attraction on the satellites of Jupiter. (BCW 1:447).

Some links:

• Quotes: Boris de Zirkoff
• CTD article in Russian: Борелли, Джованни Альфонсо

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To show: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli; sortable: Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
Person's short name: G. A. Borelli; sortable: Borelli, G. A.; for categories: Borelli G.A.
Lifetime: 1608-1679
Shortly: Italian physiologist and physicist, professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa. Author of De mot...