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Michelangelo Fardella
Italian scientist and mathematician (1650–1718) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michelangelo Fardella (born Trapani, 1650 – died Naples, January 2, 1718) was an Italian scientist and mathematician.
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Biography
Fardella was born at Trapani, Sicily, and died in Naples. He was a member of the Order of Friars Minor. He excelled in physics and mathematics, and was both the chair of philosophy in Modena and of astronomy and philosophy in Padua. He embraced the philosophy of René Descartes, after learning the principles during a voyage which he made to Paris (1678) from conversations with Antoine Arnauld, Nicolas Malebranche and Bernard Lamy.
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Works
Some of his principal works are:
- Universæ philosophiæ systema, Venice, 1691, in-12
- Universæ usualis mathematicæ theoria, 1691
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