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Cavalieri, Bonaventura

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CAVALIERI, BONAVENTURA. - Jesuit, born in Milan probably in 1598, died in Bologna on 30 November 1647. He was set on the path of mathematical studies by the Benedictine B. Castelli; he made such rapid and splendid progress that he was afterwards appointed professor at the Studio of Bologna. To him are owed: the introduction of logarithms into Italy, certain discoveries concerning optics and mechanics, and the theory of indivisibles, which led his contemporaries to proclaim him a "new Archimedes."

Among his numerous works, the following are to be cited: Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota (Bologna 1635); Trigonometria plana et spherica linearis et logarithmica (ibid. 1643).

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: G. Piola, Elogio (on the occasion of the inauguration of the monument erected to C. in Milan), Milan 1844; G. Favaro, Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo Galilei, biografia 31ª, in Atti del R. Istituto veneto, 74 (1914-15), pp. 700-67.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1197.

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“Cavalieri, bonaventura.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1197. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cavalieri-bonaventura.

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“Cavalieri, bonaventura.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1197. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cavalieri-bonaventura.

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  title     = {Cavalieri, bonaventura},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
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