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BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO (1608-1679)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 247 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO (1608-1679) , Italian physiologist and physicist, was born at Naples on the 28th of January 16o8. He was appointed professor of mathematics_ at Messina in 1649 and at Pisa in 1656. In 1667 he returned to Messina, but in 1674 was obliged to retire to Rome, where he lived under the
protection
  of Christina, queen of
Sweden
 , and died on the 31st of December 1679. His best-known
work
  is De motu animalium (Rome, 168o-1681), in which he sought to explain the movements of the animal
body
  on mechanical principles; he thus ranks as the founder of the iatrophysical school. In a
letter
 , Del movimento della cemeta apparsa it mese di decembre 1664, published in 1665 under the pseudonym Pier Maria Mutoli, he was the first to suggest the
idea
  of a parabolic path; and another of his astronomical works was Theorica mediceorum
planet
  arum ex causis physicis deducta (Florence, 1666), in which he considered the
influence
  of attraction on the satellites of Jupiter. He also wrote: Della Causa delle Febbri maligni (Pisa, 1658); De Renum usu Judicium (Strassburg, 1664); Euclides Restitutus (Pisa, 1658); Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri v., vi. et vii. (Florence, 1661); De vi percussionis (Bologna, 1667); Meteorologia Aetnea (Reggio, 1669); and De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus (Bologna, 1670).


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