Giovanni Padovani, also written Ioannis Paduanni, was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and musician born around 1512, who lived in Verona and was a student of Pietro Pitati. He published esteemed treatises on astronomical, mathematical and musical subjects, and is best known for his treatise on the sundial, Opus de compositione et usu multiformium horologiorum solarium, printed at Venice in 1570 and expanded and rewritten in 1582. The manual gives instructions for making and laying out vertical and horizontal sundials, extensive tables of declinations for various latitudes and instructions for calculating latitude, including a dial for unequal hours of the kind used in the ecclesiastical calendar. His father Franciscus served the Olivetan order in Verona as an organist.
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Giovanni Padovani (or Ioannis Paduanni) (b. c. 1512) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and musician.
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Giovanni Padovani (or Ioannis Paduanni) (b. c. 1512) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and musician.
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Giovanni Padovani (or Ioannis Paduanni) (b. c. 1512) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and musician.
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He lived in Verona and was a student of Pietro Pitati.
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Giovanni Padovani (or Ioannis Paduanni) (b. c. 1512) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and musician.
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