Pietro De Martino
Italian mathematician and astronomer
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Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was a mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Naples.[1]
Pietro Di Martino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 May 1707 |
| Died | 28 January 1746 (aged 38) Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, Mathematics |
| Workplaces | University of Naples |
Biography
Born in Faicchio, he was the brother of Angelo, professor first of medical physics then of mathematics at the University of Naples; and of Nicola Antonio De Martino, professor of mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of Agostino Ariani and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735, he was assigned to the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.[2]
He disputed with Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong hypothesis.[1]
He authored various works; his Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica, published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in Turin in 1762).[1] He died in Naples in 1746.[2]
Works
- Degli elementi della geometria piana composti da Euclide Megarese, e tradotti in italiano, ed illustrati (in Italian). Naples: Alessio Pellecchia. 1785 [1736].
- Philosophiae naturalis institutionum libri tres (in Latin). Naples: Felice Carlo Mosca. 1738.
- Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica (in Italian). Naples: Felice Carlo Mosca. 1739.
- Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica (in Italian). Turin: Stamperia Reale. 1762 [1739].
- De luminis refractione et motu (in Latin). Naples. 1740.
- De corporum quae moventur viribus, earumque aestimandarum ratione (in Latin). Naples: Felice Mosca. 1741.