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Della Porta, Colonna, and Fontana: the role of Neapolitan scientist at the beginning of the telescope era (2019)

Gargano, Mauro (Author)

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 22
Issue: 1
Pages: 45-59

URI: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JAHH...22...45G

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Astronomy Observation Communication within scientific contexts Correspondence and corresponding Renaissance Naples (Italy) Fontana, Francesco Colonna, Fabio Della Porta, Giovan Battista

Giovan Battista Della Porta is best known for his theory of experimental science; Fabio Colonna for his botanical studies; and Francesco Fontana for his powerful telescopes and the exact observations of the Moon and planets, particularly Mars. All three were interested in astronomy. But when were the first observations in Naples? And what did they observe? And by whom? This paper, based on the correspondence of the protagonists, attempts to retrace the events of first Neapolitan astronomical observations

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