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FRANCESCO BIANCHINI (1662-1729)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 848 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO See also:BIANCHINI (1662-1729)  , See also:Italian astronomer and See also:antiquary, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family at See also:Verona on the 13th of See also:December 1662 . In 1684 he went to See also:Rome, and became librarian to See also:Cardinal Ottoboni, who, as See also:Pope See also:Alexander VIII . (1689), raised him to the offices of papal See also:chamberlain and See also:canon of See also:Santa Maria See also:Maggiore . See also:Clement XI. sent him on a See also:mission to See also:Paris in 1712, and employed him to See also:form a museum of See also:Christian antiquities . He died at Rome on the 2nd of See also:March 1729 . A See also:paper by him on G . D . See also:Cassini's new method of parallaxes was inserted in the Acta Eruditorum of See also:Leipzig in 1685 . He published separately:—Istoria Universale (See also:Roma, 1697), only one See also:volume of which appeared; De Calendario et Cyclo Caesaris (1703); Hesperi et Phosphori nova Phaenomena (1729), in which he asserted .See also:Venus to rotate in 243 days; and (posthumously) Astronomicae et Geographicae Observationes Selectae (1737) and Opuscula See also:Varia (1754) . See See also:Fontenelle's " Eloge " (Memoires de l'Acad. de l'Histoire, p . 102, Paris, 1729) ; Mazzoleni, Vita di See also:Francesco See also:Bianchini (Verona, 1735) ; Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani Illustri, vii . 288 (Venezia, Y840); Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d' Italia; See also:Maffei, Verona Illustrata, p .

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