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Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17
April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an
Italian astronomer and a
Catholic priest in the
Jesuit order. He is known,
among other...
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Riccioli is a
lunar impact crater located near the
western limb of the Moon. It lies just to the
northwest of a
larger crater, Grimaldi. To the southwest...
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riccioli (disambiguation) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 – 1671) was an
Italian astronomer.
Riccioli could...
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Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671)
published his book
Almagestum novum ... . In
volume 1 of his
Astronomia Reformata,
Riccioli discusses the position...
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southwest of the Oce**** Procellarum, and
southeast of the
crater Riccioli.
Between Oce****
Procellarum is Damoiseau, and to the
north is Lohrmann...
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Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani.
Between 1640 and 1650,
working with
Riccioli, he
investigated the free fall of objects,
confirming that the distance...
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standard reference on
selenography for over a century.
Giambattista Riccioli, SJ, a
Catholic priest and
scholar who
lived in
northern Italy aut****d...
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Simon Marius,
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and
Martinus Hortensius made
similar measurements of stars, and
Marius and
Riccioli concluded the
smaller sizes...
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named after a
Flemish astronomer Godefroy Wendelin in 1651 by
Giovanni Riccioli. In 1935 this name was
approved by
International Astronomical Union. The...
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later in the 17th century, the
efforts of
Giovanni Battista Riccioli and
Francesco Maria Grimaldi led to the
system of
naming of
lunar features...
