Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli in Brescia in 1578, was an Italian mathematician who took the name Benedetto on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595. He studied at the University of Padua, became an abbot at Monte Cassino and was a long-time friend and supporter of his teacher Galileo Galilei, whom he replaced as mathematician at the University of Pisa before moving to the University of Rome La Sapienza. He assisted Galileo's study of sunspots, took part in the examination of Copernican theory and introduced Bonaventura Cavalieri to Galileo. His work on running water was an important early treatise on fluids in motion. His students included Borelli, Magiotti and Torricelli.
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Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician.
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Benedetto was not the name that he was given when he was baptised, rather it was Antonio.
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Benedetto Castelli (1578-9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician.
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Benedetto Castelli (1578-9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician.
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He was a long-time friend and supporter of his teacher, Galileo Galilei, and in turn, he was a teacher to Galileo's son.
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A pupil of Castelli in Rome, in 1638 he was Castelli's tip to Galileo as the candidate for the chair of Mathematics at Pisa.
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A Catholic from Essex, he studied under Benedetto Castelli in Pisa and lived mostly in Italy.
Evangelista Torricelli (Wikipedia)
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Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608-25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli.
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He studied in Pisa under Benedetto Castelli.
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He also studied mathematics under Benedetto Castelli who himself had been a student of Galileo Galilei.
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