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Giovanni Battista Riccioli

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Riccioli, Giovanni Battista 

Born Apr. 17, 1598, in Ferrara; died June 25, 1671, in Bologna. Italian astronomer.

Riccioli’s work A lmagestum novum (New Almagest) was published in 1651. An encyclopedia of the astronomical knowledge of the time, the A Imagestum included the minutes of the trial of Galileo and the text of Galileo’s recantation. It also included a map of the moon, on which craters were named after astronomers.
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Grant) to a contextual study of the Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli (A.
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters by Feldhay, Rivka / Renaissance Quarterly
Stephenson describes the work of two authors who did try to grapple with Kepler's complicated theories, the English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks and the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Battista Riccioli (who wrote on the history of astronomy), and he is the first to give these authors deserved recognition.
The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy by Rabin, Sheila J. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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