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{{Short description|Italian mathematician and astronomer}} ...aretti''' ([[Florence]], 19 June 1948 – [[Pisa]], 28 November 2018) was an Italian [[mathematician]] and [[astronomer]], based at the [[University of Pisa]]. ...

{{Short description|Italian cosmologist}} | nationality = Italian ...

...is said that it was his ideas on [[cubic equation]]s which influenced the Italian mathematician [[Fibonacci]] after transmission via the [[Islamic world]]. * Y Ruan, Biographies of Mathematicians and Astronomers (Chinese) 1 (Shanghai, 1955). ...

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

...dividing the daylight hours by twelve using ''unequal hours'', known as [[Italian hours]] or [[Babylonian hours]].}} Dials of this type appeared in Austria a ...

[[Sumer]]ian astronomers studied angle measure, using a division of circles into 360 degrees.<ref>{{ ...].<ref>N.G. Wilson (1992). ''From Byzantium to Italy. Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance'', London. {{isbn|0-7156-2418-0}}</ref> Trigonometry was still ...

Astronomers involved in the discovery of Dimorphos include [[Petr Pravec|P. Pravec]], L ...covered on 20 November 2003 by [[Petr Pravec]] in collaboration with other astronomers worldwide. Dimorphos has a diameter of {{convert|177|m|ft|sp=us}} across it ...

...Gregorian year. Thus Pitatus's solution would have commended itself to the astronomers.{{sfnp|Swerdlow|1986}} Astronomers avoid this ambiguity by the use of the [[Julian day number]]. ...

The [[Italy|Italian]] astronomer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] had pioneered the use of the ecl ...d for another century. The only solution available to Cassini and to other astronomers of his time was to issue periodic corrections to the tables of eclipses of ...

...ssendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=29 January 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...sity Press }}</ref> Work in the spirit of Riemann was carried out by the [[Italian school of algebraic geometry]] in the early 1900s. Contemporary treatment o ...

...coordinate system for identifying locations were hinted by ancient Chinese astronomers that divided the sky into various sectors or lunar lodges.<ref name="Selin ...agna (Gerolamo Cardano)|''The Great Art'']] written in 1545 by the [[Italy|Italian]] mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] (1501–1576).<ref name="needham 1986 vo ...

...qa]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Nancy G. |last=Siraisi |title=Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250–1600 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill Academic Publis ...Gingerich1986 /> This development by Ibn al-Shatir, as well as the Maragha astronomers remained relatively unknown in medieval Europe.<ref name=Gingerich1986 /> ...

...s, and [[meteors]] (cf. [[Historical comet observations in China]]). Early astronomers were interested in understanding these phenomena. ...e year, [[meteor showers]] with over 100 meteors per hour can be observed. Italian astronomer [[Giovanni Schiaparelli]] concluded in 1866 that the [[Perseid m ...

...] as [[elliptical galaxy|elliptical]],<ref>Hoover, A. (June 16, 2003). "UF Astronomers: Universe Slightly Simpler Than Expected". Hubble News Desk. Archived from * '''[[Lagrangian mechanics]]''' – Introduced by the Italian-French mathematician and astronomer [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] in 1788, '''L ...