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GIOVANNI See also:SANTINI (1787-1877) , See also:Italian astronomer, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:January 1787 at Caprese, in the See also:province of See also:Arezzo . He was from 1813 See also:professor of See also:astronomy at the university and director of the See also:observatory at See also: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 and notices, among which are five catalogues of telescopic stars between +Io° and -15° See also:declination, from observations made at the Padua observatory . He died on the 26th of See also:June 1877 . See Astronomische Nachrichten, No . 90; See also:Month . Not . See also:Roy . Astr . See also:Soc., No . 38 . |
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