-
Della Porta was
impressed with Cesi, and
dedicated three works to the
Linceans including a
treatise on
distillation called De Distillatione, a book on...
-
Prince Federico Cesi,
founder of the
Accademia dei
Lincei (in English, The
Linceans). 1625:
Francesco Stelluti and
Federico Cesi
publish Apiarium, the first...
- John von
Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian:
Neumann János
Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ];
December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian...
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Charles Robert Darwin (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/ DAR-win; 12
February 1809 – 19
April 1882) was an
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist,
widely known for his...
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Umberto Eco OMRI (5
January 1932 – 19
February 2016) was an
Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist,
cultural critic, and
political and...
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Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29
September 1901 – 28
November 1954) was an
Italian and
naturalized American physicist,
renowned for
being the...
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Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -] ; 27
December 1571 – 15
November 1630) was a
German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer...
- Duke of Bavaria, and in September, he sent
another to
Prince Cesi. The
Linceans pla**** a role
again in
naming the "microscope" a year
later when fellow...
-
Gaspard Bauhin or
Caspar Bauhin (Latin:
Casparus Bauhinus; 17
January 1560 – 5
December 1624), was a
Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623)...
- name
meant to be
analogous with "telescope",
another word
coined by the
Linceans.
Christiaan Huygens,
another Dutchman,
developed a
simple 2-lens ocular...
