Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Sciences Scientists

Amici, Giovanni Battista

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AMICI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician and biologist, b. in 1786, d. in 1863. Brilliant for the introduction of the immersion objective (1840), later perfected by Abbe, and for the discovery of the germination of the pollen grain on the stigma, of the path of the pollen tube into the interior of the ovule, fertilization and the origin of the embryo of phanerogams (1822-39).

A. was a complete Catholic.

Bibliography4 works
BIBL.: F. Palermo, in Bull. di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, published by B. Boncompagni, 3 (1870), p. 220; F. Auerbach, Ernst Abbe, Leipzig 1918, p. 274 ff.; G. Briosi, Atti dell'Istituto botanico di Pavia, 1, 2nd XI (1908); (Memorie, 39), Pisa 1928.

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By Luigi Scremin

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 1062.

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Scremin, Luigi. “Amici, giovanni battista.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1062. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/amici-giovanni-battista.

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Scremin, Luigi. “Amici, giovanni battista.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1062. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/amici-giovanni-battista.

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  author    = {Scremin, Luigi},
  title     = {Amici, giovanni battista},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1062},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/amici-giovanni-battista}
}

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