Castelli, B.

Japanese: カステリ,B. - かすてり
Castelli, B.

…Born in Faenza, he studied mathematics and philosophy at the Jesuit school there, then went to Rome and became secretary to Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643), a mathematician and hydraulic engineer who was a student of G. Galileo. During this time he studied Greek classical geometry and astronomy, and became the first Roman scholar of Galileo's Dialogues Concerning the Celestial Spheres. …

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Japanese:

…ファエンツァの生れ。同地のイエズス会の学校で数学と哲学を学んだのちローマに出て,G.ガリレイの弟子であった数学者でかつ水力学の技術者であるカステリBenedetto Castelli(1578‐1643)の書記になった。この間,ギリシアの古典幾何学と天文学を学び,コペルニクス説を支持すると同時に,ガリレイの《天文対話》のローマで最初の研究者となった。…

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