Giovanni Battista Zupi [SEP] occupation
Giovanni Battista Zupi
Giovanni Battista Zupi or "Zupus" (c. 1590 – 1650) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.
He was born in Catanzaro. In 1639, Giovanni was the first person to discover that the planet Mercury had orbital phases, like those of the Moon and Venus. His observations demonstrated that the planet orbited around the Sun. This occurred thirty years after Galileo's first telescope design, and Zupi's was only slightly more powerful. He died in Naples.
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Girolamo Saccheri
- Antonio Schinella Conti
17th century T.
- Evangelista Torricelli
17th century V.
- Vincenzo Viviani
17th century Z.
- Giovanni Battista Zupi
18th century.
18th century A.
- Pietro Abbati Marescotti
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Giovanni Battista Amici
18th century B.
- Laura Bassi
- Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich
- Vincenzo Brunacci
18th century C.
- Francesco Cetti
- Giovanni Ceva
- Tommaso Ceva
- Antonio Collalto
- Giovanni Francesco Crivelli
18th century F.
- Giovanni Fagnano dei Toschi