Raffaello Magiotti, who lived from 1597 to 1656, was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist, born in Montevarchi, who studied at Florence and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome following Cardinal Sacchetti and from 1636 worked at the Vatican Library. A pupil of Castelli in Rome, he was in 1638 Castelli's candidate to Galileo for the chair of mathematics at Pisa, and he took an active part in Roman scientific debates on which he gave Galileo detailed information. He published only one work in his life, Renitenza dell'acqua alla compressione, of 1648, the first report of the practical resistance of water to compression at constant temperature, which he mistakenly claimed to be absolute, as well as of the expansion and contraction of water and air with changes in temperature. It also describes various thermometers and includes an illustration of bell-jar divers, now called Cartesian divers, which implies that they were discovered by Magiotti rather than by Descartes.
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Raffaello Magiotti (1597–1656) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. == Biography == Born in Montevarchi, he studied at Florence, and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome, following Cardinal Sacchetti.
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Raffaello Magiotti (1597-1656) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. == Biography == Born in Montevarchi, he studied at Florence, and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome, following Cardinal Sacchetti.
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Raffaello Magiotti (1597-1656) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. == Biography == Born in Montevarchi, he studied at Florence, and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome, following Cardinal Sacchetti.
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Raffaello Magiotti (1597-1656) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. == Biography == Born in Montevarchi, he studied at Florence, and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome, following Cardinal Sacchetti.
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Raffaello Magiotti (1597-1656) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. == Biography == Born in Montevarchi, he studied at Florence, and, having taken his vows, moved to Rome, following Cardinal Sacchetti.
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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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