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FRANCESCO BIANCHINI (1662-1729)

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FRANCESCO
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BIANCHINI (1662-1729)  ,
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Italian astronomer and
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antiquary, was
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born of a
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noble
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family at
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Verona on the 13th of
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December 1662 . In 1684 he went to
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Rome, and became librarian to
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Cardinal Ottoboni, who, as
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Pope
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Alexander VIII . (1689), raised him to the offices of papal
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chamberlain and
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canon of
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Santa Maria
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Maggiore .
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Clement XI. sent him on a
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mission to
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Paris in 1712, and employed him to
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form a museum of
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Christian antiquities . He died at Rome on the 2nd of
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March 1729 . A
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paper by him on G . D .
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Cassini's new method of parallaxes was inserted in the Acta Eruditorum of
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Leipzig in 1685 . He published separately:—Istoria Universale (
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Roma, 1697), only one
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volume of which appeared; De Calendario et Cyclo Caesaris (1703); Hesperi et Phosphori nova Phaenomena (1729), in which he asserted .
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Venus to rotate in 243 days; and (posthumously) Astronomicae et Geographicae Observationes Selectae (1737) and Opuscula
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Varia (1754) . See
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Fontenelle's " Eloge " (Memoires de l'Acad. de l'Histoire, p . 102, Paris, 1729) ; Mazzoleni, Vita di
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Francesco
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Bianchini (Verona, 1735) ; Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani Illustri, vii . 288 (Venezia, Y840); Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d' Italia;
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Maffei, Verona Illustrata, p .

254, &c .

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