See also: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 (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
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
.
254, &c
.
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