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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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  • (1934–), cardinal. Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), astronomer. Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592–1653), archbishop. Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822–1894)...
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    ridges and floods some of the rilles. The crater is named after Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an Italian Jesuit astronomer who introduced the system of lunar...
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    system of lunar nomenclature was introduced in 1651 by Giovanni Battista Riccioli. Riccioli's map of the Moon was drawn by Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who...
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    Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, William of Ockham,… and others listed below. The Catholic Church...
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    Almagestum Novum, Giovanni Battista Riccioli set out 126 arguments against the Copernican model of the universe. In his 43rd argument, Riccioli considered the...
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  • Look up riccioli (disambiguation) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 – 1671) was an Italian astronomer. Riccioli could...
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    such as Simon Marius, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and Martinus Hortensius made similar measurements of stars, and Marius and Riccioli concluded the smaller...
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    became popular among geocentrists, and the Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli would continue Tycho's use of physics, stellar astronomy (now...
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    The Asinelli Tower was used by the scientists Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1640 and Giovanni Battista Guglielmini in the 1700s for experiments to study...
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    first binary star discovered when it was observed in 1650 by Giovanni Battista Riccioli, p. 1 but it was probably observed earlier, by Benedetto Castelli...
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    Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium. It was named by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1651. The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is within...
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    cyclones (see Coriolis effects in meteorology). Italian scientist Giovanni Battista Riccioli and his assistant Francesco Maria Grimaldi described the effect...
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    in the Big Dipper (Ursa Major), was observed to be double by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650 (and probably earlier by Benedetto Castelli and Galileo)...
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    binary star system, claimed to be discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1650, although Indians have traditionally called this binary...
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    Earth's motion around the Sun. His arguments were published by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in his Almagestum novum (1651) and later resumed by John Wallis...
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    Tranquillitatis was named in 1651 by astronomers Francesco Grimaldi and Giovanni Battista Riccioli in their lunar map Almagestum novum. Michael van Langren, in his...
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    M. (2012). "126 arguments concerning the motion of the earth. GIOVANNI BATTISTA RICCIOLI in his 1651 ALMAGESTUM NOVUM". Journal for the History of Astronomy...
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    astronomers who first mapped them, in the 17th century (notably, Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi). Although no bodies of liquid exist...
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    9 – Sebastian von Rostock, German bishop (b. 1607) June 25 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598) July 4 – Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter...
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    Eustachio Divini. According to a report by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1635, Leander Bandtius, whom Riccioli identified as the Abbot of Dunisburgh who...
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    formation. Initially, the name Galilaeus had been applied by Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an Italian Jesuit who produced one of the first detailed maps...
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    Cassini was able to complete his education under the scientists Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi. In 1650 the senate of Bologna appointed...
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    the Moon followed: later in the 17th century, the efforts of Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi led to the system of naming of lunar...
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  • 1669 – François de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort (b. 1616) 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (b. 1598) 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore...
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    than 1 but less than 2.) Godefroy Wendelin wrote a letter to Giovanni Battista Riccioli about the relationship between the distances of the Jovian moons...
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    Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, William of Ockham, and others. The Catholic Church has also produced...
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  • 1892–1979) Pieter Johannes van Rhijn (Netherlands, 1886–1960) Giovanni Battista Riccioli (Italy, 1598–1671) Mercedes Richards (Jamaica, 1955–2016) Jean...
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    Graney, Christopher M. (2015), Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo, University...
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    Graney, Christopher M. (2015). Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science Against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. Notre...
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