SERPIERI, ALESSANDRO. - Scolopian scientist,
b. at S. Giovanni di Marignano, near Rimini, on
31 Oct. 1825, d. at the College of the Badia Fiesolana,
on 22 Feb. 1885.

An astronomer, physicist and seismologist, he taught experimental
physics at the University of Urbino, rising to fame as a
distinguished master in astronomy and meteorology, in
physics and seismology. He studied particularly shooting stars
and the zodiacal light. The strong earthquakes in Italy in 1873 and
1875 found in him the mind suited and prepared to
draw important conclusions from them. Noteworthy are his books
on the new doctrines of the electric
potential, immediately translated into several languages. The name
of S., one of the greatest physicists of the last
century, rapidly passed beyond the narrow circle
of the small University. When the
Scolopians were driven out of Urbino, he withdrew
to the College of the Badia Fiesolana.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: G. Giovannozzi, Della vita e delle opere del p. A. S., Florence 1889; T. Vinas, Scriptores Scholarum Piarum, I, Rome 1909, p. 42.

Leodegario Picanyol

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