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GIOVANNI ALFONSO BORELLI (1608-1679)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 247 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIOVANNI ALFONSO

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

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