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Last Name Grimaldi
Given Name Francesco Maria
alt. Names F. M. G. ; Franciscus Grimaldus ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1613 in Bologna
Year died 1663
Place of death Bologna
Father's occupation Paride Grimaldi
Relatives Anna Cattani (mother)
Education in Jesuit college
Country of Activity Italy
Worked for Giovanni Battista Riccioli S. J. (1598-1671): Almagestum novum (Bologna 1651) ; Selenographia P. Francisci Mariae Grimaldi Soc. Iesu, physicomathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque annexis ;
Patronage Jesuit college in Bologna
Collaborators
Techniques astronomical drawing ;
Sample(s) http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/GiovanniBattistaRiccioliJAlmagestumNovumZoom.html ;
Archival sources see further links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Grimaldi ;
Published sources Bruce Eastwood in Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography 2008 - http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Francesco_Maria_Grimaldi.aspx ;
other Italian Jesuit priest, better known as mathematician, optician, physicist, and natural philosopher, but also active as illustrator.
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