Giuseppe Biancani

Giuseppe Biancani ( Latinized Josephus Blancanus; * March 8, 1566 in Bologna, † June 7, 1624 in Parma ) was an Italian Jesuit priest, astronomer and mathematician.

The lunar crater Blancanus is named after him.

Works

• De Natura mathematicarum dissertatio. Una cum Clarorum mathematical corum Chronologia (Bologna 1615)
• Aristotelis loca mathematica ex universes ipsius operibus collecta et explicata (Bologna 1615)
• Sphaera mundi, seu cosmographia demonstrativa, ac facili methodo tradita (Bologna 1619)
• Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria ( 1635)
• Echometria, id est de Geometrica traditional echo (Modena 1635)

Swell

• Augustin de Backer et Alois: Bibliothèque de la compagnie de écrivains of Jésus, ou Notices bibliographiques. Première Série, Grandmont - Donders, Liège, 1853-1861, p 91; online
• Giuseppe Biancani in Biografico Dizionario degli Italiani

• Mathematicians (16th century)
• Mathematicians (17th century)
• Astronomer (16th century)
• Astronomer (17th century)
• Born in 1566
• Died in 1624
• Italian
• Man