BINA, ANDREA. - Cassinese Benedictine of the abbey of Polirone (Mantua), b. in Milan in 1724, d. there on 8 March 1792. He taught philosophy in the monasteries of Padua, Perugia and Milan, theology in Rome, and mathematics and physics at the University of Parma. The invention of the pendulum seismograph is due to him, which he first outlined in his Ragionamento sopra la cagione de' tremuoti, ed in particolare di quello della terra di Gualdo e Nocera nell'Umbria seguito l'anno 1751 (Perugia 1751). He also published other scientific writings, especially on electricity, and was the first to translate into Latin the physics of Christian Wolff.
Bibliography3 worksG. C. Poggendorff, Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch für Mathematik, Astronomie, Physik, Chemie und verwandte Wissenschaftsgebiete,
BIBL.: G. C. Poggendorff, Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch für Mathematik, Astronomie, Physik, Chemie und verwandte Wissenschaftsgebiete, I, Leipzig 1863, p. 191; G. Terenzi, L'inventore del sismografo a pendolo, in Riv. scientifica-industriale, 19 (1887), p. 52 and in Bull. del vulcanismo ital., 14 (1887), p. 33; G. Aramennone, L'inventore del sismografo a pendolo, in La meteorologia pratica, 7 (1926), p. 264.
Leccisotti, Tommaso. “Bina, andrea.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1640. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bina-andrea.
MLA
Leccisotti, Tommaso. “Bina, andrea.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1640. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bina-andrea.
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@incollection{ec2_bina_andrea,
author = {Leccisotti, Tommaso},
title = {Bina, andrea},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1640},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bina-andrea}
}
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