Agostino Ricci (astronomer)
Agostino Ricci , in Latin Augustinus Riccius , was a 16th century Italian astronomer.
He was of Jewish descent and a student of the Jewish astronomer Abraham Zacuto , but later converted to Christianity. In Italy after 1511 he met the German scholar Agrippa von Nettesheim , whose interest in Kabbalah and the Hermetic Sciences he shared.
His best known work is De motu octaue sphere ("On the movement of the eighth sphere"). The work was published in Italian in 1513 and in a Latin translation in Paris in 1521.
The lunar crater Riccius is named after him and the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci .
Individual evidence
- ^ Frances A. Yates : The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age . London 1979, p. 39
- ↑ Augustini Ricij, De motu octauæ sphæræ, opus mathematica, atq [ue] philosophia plenum. : Vbi tam antiquoru [m], q [uam] iunioru [m] errores, luce clarius demo [n] strantur: in quo & q [uam] plurima Platoni coru [m], & antiquæ magi [æ] (qua [m ] Cabalam Hebr [ae] i dicu [n] t ([ie])) dogmata videre licet intellectu suauissima. : Eiusdem De astronomiæ autoribus epistola. Printed by Simon de Colines , Paris 1521
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| SURNAME | Ricci, Agostino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riccius, Augustine; Ricchi, Agostino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |