Anastasio de Fillis

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Anastasio de Fillis , also Anastasio de Filiis (* 1577 in Terni , † 1608 in Naples ) was an Italian astronomer and one of the co-founders of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.

Life

Anastasio de Fillis was born as the first of three sons of the Gonfaloniere Paolo Cesi from Terni. There are no sources about his childhood and youth or his education. From 1603 he stayed in Rome with Federico Cesi . Together with Cesi, who was only eighteen at the time, as well as the mathematician and naturalist Francesco Stelluti and the Dutch astronomer and alchemist Johannes van Heeck , he founded the Accademia dei Lincei in 1603. Like each of the four founding members, it had an alias: eclisso or eclipsatus , its own coat of arms with a rising moon and a motto in Latin - spero lucem (= I hope for the light). Anastasio de Fillis made an astrolabe on behalf of Cesi , which has not been preserved.

Anastasios brother Angelo de Fillis (1583-1624) was a librarian at the Accademia. In this capacity he wrote the dedication and the foreword to the printing of three letters by Galileo , which were published by the Accademia in Rome under the title Lettere sulle macchie solari in 1613.

Fonts

Only two of his writings, which were previously kept in the Biblioteca Albani, have survived.

  • De arcanis naturalibus
  • Novae saecundorum motuum tabulae from Eclipsato Lyncaeo delineatae .

Honors

A street and a school were named after him in Terni.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le macchie solari
  2. ↑ Maria Moranti: Le biblioteche della famiglia Albani , accessed December 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Fillis, Anastasio de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filiis, Anastasio de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian astronomer and one of the co-founders of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Terni
DATE OF DEATH 1608
Place of death Naples