Stefano degli Angeli was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and Jesuate, born in Venice on 23 September 1623 and dying in Padua on 11 October 1697. A member of the Order of the Jesuats, suppressed in 1668, he was a student of Bonaventura Cavalieri and from 1662 until his death taught at the University of Padua. From 1654 to 1667 he devoted himself to geometry, continuing the research of Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli on the method of indivisibles, then turned to mechanics, where he often clashed with Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Giovanni Riccioli. Returning to Venice from Rome in 1652, he defended the method of indivisibles against attacks by the Jesuits Paul Guldin, Mario Bettini and André Tacquet, first in an Appendix pro indivisibilibus attached to his 1658 Problemata geometrica sexaginta. Montucla praised him in his Histoire des mathématiques.
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Stefano degli Angeli (Venice, 23 September 1623 – Padua, 11 October 1697) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuate.
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MacTutor Home Biographies History Topics Map Curves Search Stefano degli Angeli Quick Info Born 21 September 1623 Venice, Venetian States (now Italy) Died 11 October 1697 Venice, Venetian States (now Italy) Summary Stephano Angeli was an Italian
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View one larger picture Biography Stephano degli Angeli was in fact named Francesco degli Angeli as a child but later changed his name when entering a religious order.
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Stefano degli Angeli (Venice, 23 September 1623, Padua, 11 October 1697) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuate.
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From 1654 to 1667, he devoted himself to the study of geometry, continuing the research of Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli based on the method of Indivisibles.
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From 1654 to 1667, he devoted himself to the study of geometry, continuing the research of Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli based on the method of Indivisibles.
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Angeli was a student of Bonaventura Cavalieri.
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At Padua he lived in the house of his countryman James Caddenhead, the professor of philosophy, and he was taught by Stefano Angeli.
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