Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe (1711-87)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3483. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Mathematician, born in Ragusa, Dalmatia, Venetian territory (now Dubrovnik, Croatia), professor at the Collegium Romanum in Rome and Pavia, and director of the Brera Observatory. Using NEWTON's gravitational theories, Boscovich was the first to give a procedure to compute a planet's orbit from three observations of its position, a solution that was elaborated by CARL GAUSS, LEGENDRE and other mat...

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