GIOVANNI

SANTINI (1787-1877)  , Italian astronomer, was born on the 3oth of January 1787 at Caprese, in the province of Arezzo . He was from 1813 professor of astronomy at the university and director of the observatory at Padua . He wrote Elementi di astronomia (2 vols . 1820, 2nd ed . 1830), Teoria degli stromenti ottici (2 vols . 1828), and many scientific memoirs and notices, among which are five catalogues of telescopic stars between +Io° and -15° declination, from observations made at the Padua observatory . He died on the 26th of June 1877 . See Astronomische Nachrichten, No . 90; Month . Not . Roy . Astr .

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