Giuseppe Biancani, in Latin Josephus Blancanus, was born in Bologna on 8 March 1566 and died on 7 June 1624. He was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and selenographer, and the lunar crater Blancanus is named after him. He entered the Jesuit order in 1592, studied at the College of Brescia with Marco Antonio De Dominis and at the Academy of Mathematics of the Roman College with Clavius, and lived in Padua from 1596 to 1599, where he befriended Galileo. After the Jesuits were expelled from the Republic of Venice in 1606 he taught mathematics at the Jesuit College of Parma until his death, and his pupils included Niccolò Cabeo, Niccolò Zucchi and Giovanni Battista Riccioli. His main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century.
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Giuseppe Biancani (Latin: Josephus Blancanus; 8 March 1566 – 7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.
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Giuseppe Biancani (Latin: Josephus Blancanus; 8 March 1566-7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.
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Giuseppe Biancani (Latin: Josephus Blancanus; 8 March 1566-7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.
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was one of the most able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620, 1630, 1635, and 1653. == Biography == Giuseppe Biancani was born in
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Giuseppe Biancani (Latin: Josephus Blancanus; 8 March 1566-7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named.
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Mario Bettinus studied mathematics under the Belgian Jean Verviers and Giuseppe Biancani at the Jesuit College of S. Rocco, in Parma.
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