Francesco Fontana [SEP] place of birth
Francesco Fontana
Francesco Fontana (1580–) was an Italian lawyer (University of Naples) and an astronomer.
He created woodcuts showing the Moon and the planets as he saw them through a self-constructed telescope. In 1646 he published most of them in the book "Novae coelestium terrestriumq[ue] rerum observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae."
In 1645, he claimed to have observed a satellite of Venus (Paul Stroobant demonstrated in 1887 that all similar observations were not related to a putative satellite of Venus
18 Mar 1686 Appointed, Archbishop of Benevento)
- Jan Kazimierz Denhoff (10 Nov 1687 – 2 Jun 1697 Resigned)
- Giovanni Fontana (bishop of Cesena) (3 Jun 1697 – 2 Mar 1716 Died)
- Marco Battista Battaglini (8 Jun 1716 – 19 Sep 1717 Died)
- Francesco Saverio Guicciardi (24 Jan 1718 – 18 Jan 1725 Died)
- Giovanni Battista Orsi, C.O. (21 Mar 1725 – 15 Nov 1734 Resigned)
- Guido Orselli (17 Nov 1734 – 18