Domenico Griminelli
Italian mathematician and priest (17th century)
About Domenico Griminelli
Lived 1601 – 1700. Domenico Griminelli was a mathematician and catholic priest.
Domenico Griminelli was a 17th-century Italian mathematician and Catholic priest from Correggio, Emilia-Romagna.
He published in 1656 Novissima prattica d'aritmetica mercantile ("Brand-new practice of mercantile arithmetic"), also known outside Italy and reprinted for two centuries. The book's introduction echoed Plato in declaring numbers to be a divine gift, without which civilization would vanish, and dedicated the work to cardinal Girolamo Gastaldi, the General Treasurer of the Apostolic Camera.
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Italian mathematician and priest (17th century)
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