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