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GIOVANNI ALFONSO See also:BORELLI (1608-1679) , See also:Italian physiologist and physicist, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the 28th of See also:January 16o8 . He was appointed See also:professor of mathematics_ at See also:Messina in 1649 and at See also:Pisa in 1656 . In 1667 he returned to Messina, but in 1674 was obliged to retire to See also:Rome, where he lived under the See also:protection of See also:Christina, See also:queen of See also:Sweden, and died on the 31st of See also:December 1679 . His best-known See also:work is De motu animalium (Rome, 168o-1681), in which he sought to explain the movements of the See also:animal See also:body on See also:mechanical principles; he thus ranks as the founder of the iatrophysical school . In a See also:letter, Del movimento della cemeta apparsa it mese di decembre 1664, published in 1665 under the See also:pseudonym See also:Pier Maria Mutoli, he was the first to suggest the See also:idea of a parabolic path; and another of his astronomical See also:works was Theorica mediceorum See also:planet arum ex causis physicis deducta (See also:Florence, 1666), in which he considered the See also:influence of attraction on the satellites of See also:Jupiter . He also wrote: Della Causa delle Febbri maligni (Pisa, 1658); De Renum usu Judicium (See also:Strassburg, 1664); Euclides Restitutus (Pisa, 1658); Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri v., vi. et vii . (Florence, 1661); De vi percussionis (See also:Bologna, 1667); Meteorologia Aetnea (Reggio, 1669); and De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus (Bologna, 1670) . |
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