Guglielmo Gargiolli
Italian mathematician and engineer (17th century)
About Guglielmo Gargiolli
Lived 1601 – 1700. Guglielmo Gargiolli was a mathematician and engineer.
Guglielmo Gargiolli was a 17th-century Italian mathematician and engineer.
He was Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Siena, and Lecturer of Military Engineering and Mathematics at the Court of Florence. His book, Iride celeste ("Celestial Iris"), was noted for its explanation of how to estimate from a distance the height of an object and its distance from the observer.
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Italian mathematician and engineer (17th century)
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Guglielmo Gargiolli was born in 1601.
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Guglielmo Gargiolli died in 1700.
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