GIOVANNI See also:

• GIOVANNI SANTINI (1787-1877)

SANTINI (1787-1877)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3oth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1787 at Caprese, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• AREZZO (anc. Arretium)

Arezzo . He was from 1813 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy at the university and director of the See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua . He wrote Elementi di astronomia (2 vols . 1820, 2nd ed . 1830), Teoria degli stromenti ottici (2 vols . 1828), and many scientific See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs and notices, among which are five catalogues of telescopic stars between +Io° and -15° See also:

• DECLINATION (from Lat. declinare, to decline)

declination, from observations made at the Padua observatory . He died on the 26th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1877 . See Astronomische Nachrichten, No . 90; See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

Month . Not . See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . Astr .

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• SOC

Soc., No . 38 .