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{{About||the 17th century Italian Roman Catholic bishop|Giacomo Candido (bishop)}} |nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] ...

{{Short description|Italian mathematician and astronomer}} | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] ...

{{Short description|Italian mathematician and physicist (1707–1775)}} | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] ...

...rded as one of the three most important works on [[mechanics]] in the 17th century, the other two being [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]’s ''[[Discourses and Mathe ...ristiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4020-26 ...

This is a '''list of notable Italian scientists''' organized by the era in which they were active. ...tician, author of many of the best books on arithmetic written in the 15th Century ...

...nd, if so, how this could be done.<ref name=":1" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Georg Cantor]] enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying [ ...[[Indian mathematics|Jain mathematical]] text Surya Prajnapti (c. 4th–3rd century BCE) classifies all numbers into three sets: [[enumerable]], innumerable, a ...

...focused on the [[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric rati ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

...peared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geometry]] to understa ...the theory of [[manifold]]s and [[Riemannian geometry]]. Later in the 19th century, it appeared that geometries without the [[parallel postulate]] ([[non-Eucl ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...s by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], on the use of the golden ratio in art. Another Italian painter, [[Piero della Francesca]], developed [[Euclid]]'s ideas on [[Persp ...

'''Italian inventions and discoveries''' are objects, processes or techniques invented ...ouse of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of the tele ...

...[[history of Islam]], traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.<ref name=Saliba>{{cite book|last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George ...phor of a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]] began to be applied in 19th-century literature about [[Islamic history]], in the context of the western aesthet ...

...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W * [[Catapult]] — A Catapult dating to the 19th century B.C was found on the walls of the fortress of [[Buhen]].<ref name="wac">{{C ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...a Bachelor of Arts degree, that included supplementary courses in French, Italian, Latin, and logic.{{R|1="Western Daily Press 28 June 1923"|2="Staveley Barr ...