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BIANCHINI, FRANCESCO (1662-1729) , Italian astronomer and antiquary, was born of a noble family at Verona on the 13th of December 1662. In 1684 he went to Rome, and became librarian to Cardinal Ottoboni, who, as Pope
chamberlain
Maggiore . Clement XI. sent him on a mission to Paris in 1712, and employed him to form a museum of Christian antiquities. He died at Rome on the 2nd of March
paper by him on G. D. Cassini's new method of parallaxes was inserted in the Acta Eruditorum of Leipzig
Venus
See Fontenelle's " Eloge " (Memoires de l'Acad. de l'Histoire, p. 102, Paris, 1729) ; Mazzoleni, Vita di Francesco Bianchini (Verona, 1735) ; Tipaldo, Biografia degli Italiani Illustri, vii. 288 (Venezia, Y840); Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d' Italia; Maffei, Verona Illustrata, p. 254, &c. End of Article: BIANCHINI, FRANCESCO (1662-1729) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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