Antonio Cagnoli

Antonio Cagnoli (incorrectly Andrea Cagnoli ; born September 29, 1743 in Zante ( Zakynthos ), † August 6, 1816 in Verona ) was an Italian astronomer .

Life

Cagnoli initially worked as a diplomat in the service of the Republic of Venice , but was inspired by Lalande in Paris for astronomical studies and worked at his private observatory in Verona from 1788 . During the occupation of Veneto by the French troops, his observatory was badly damaged, Lalande brokered an encounter with Napoléon , who compensated Cagnoli and urged him to move to Milan in 1797. Cagnoli worked as an astronomer at the Brera observatory in Milan , where some of the rescued instruments had been taken, and was involved in the preparations for the establishment of the Cisalpine Republic , but in 1798 followed a call as professor of mathematics at the newly founded War School in Modena , which he represented at the Assembly of Lyon in 1802. From 1807 he lived in Verona again. Since 1808 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The French Academy of Sciences he was in Paris as a corresponding member.

The asteroid (11112) Cagnoli was named after him.

Fonts

Trigonometria piana e sferica . Bologna (1804)

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Cagnoli, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 233 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ugo Baldini : Cagnoli, Antonio. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16: Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.

Web links

Publications by Antonio Cagnoli in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
Standard entry in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale

Individual evidence

^ Member entry by Antonio Andrea Cagnoli at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 10, 2017.
^ List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 24, 2019 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Cagnoli, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zante
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1816
Place of death	Verona

[1] Member entry by Antonio Andrea Cagnoli at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 10, 2017.

[2] List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 24, 2019 (French).