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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 775 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUIGI FERDINANDO MARSIGLI [Latinized MARSILIUS] (1658–1730)
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Italian soldier and scientific writer, was born at Bologna on the loth of
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July 1658 . After a course of scientific studies in his native city he travelled through
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Turkey
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collecting data on the military organization of that
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empire, as well as on its natural
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history . On his return he entered the service of the emperor Leopold (1682) and fought with distinction against the
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Turks, by whom he was wounded and captured in an
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action on the
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river Raab, and sold to a
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pasha whom he accompanied to the siege of Vienna . His release was
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purchased in 1684, and he afterwards took
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part in the war of the
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Spanish succession . In 1703 he was appointed second in command under Count Arco in the defence of Alt-Breisach . The fortress surrendered to the duke of
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Burgundy, and both Arco and Marsigli were court martialled; the former was condemned to
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death and the latter cashiered, although acquitted of blame by public opinion . Having thus been forced to give up soldiering, he devoted the rest of his
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life to scientific investigations, in the pursuit of which he made many journeys through
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Europe, spending a considerable time at
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Marseilles to study the nature of the sea . In 1712 he presented his collections to his native city, where they formed the nucleus of the Bologna Institute of Science and
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Art . He died at Bologna on the 1st of November 1730 . Marsigli was a
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fellow of the
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London Royal Society and a member of the Paris Academy of Science . Eloge " in the Mim. de 1'acad.
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des sciences (Paris, 1730) ; Quincy, Memoires sur la
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vie de M. le comte Marsigli (Zurich, 1741), and Fantuzzi's biography of Marsigli (Bologna, 1770) .

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