Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana

Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (born November 6, 1781 in Voghera , † January 20, 1864 in Turin ) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.

In 1817 he married Alessandra Lagrange, the niece of the famous mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange , whose student he had been at the École polytechnique in Paris around 1800 . Plana worked for a long time as professor of astronomy and director of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Turin observatory) and as a senator.

In 1826 he became a corresponding and in 1860 a foreign member of the Académie des sciences . As a foreign member, he had been a member of the Royal Society since 1827 , and was awarded the Copley Medal in 1834. In 1832 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1835 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1837 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In December 1839 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg , and in 1864 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In addition, the lunar crater Plana was named after him.

Fonts

Théorie du mouvement de la lune. Turin 1832, 3 volumes. (Digitized: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )

Web links

John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Publications by GAA Plana in the Astrophysics Data System
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Entry for Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo (1781 - 1864) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
WT Lynn: Baron Plana The Observatory, Vol. 27 (1904), p. 132-132 (obituary, English)

Individual evidence

↑ The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment , editor Kostas Gavroglu, Springer, 1999, ISBN 978-94-011-4770-5 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-94-011-4770-5 , limited preview in Google Book search
^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 30, 2020 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 190.

personal data
SURNAME	Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian astronomer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH	Voghera
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1864
Place of death	Turin

[1] The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment , editor Kostas Gavroglu, Springer, 1999, ISBN 978-94-011-4770-5 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-94-011-4770-5 , limited preview in Google Book search

[2] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 30, 2020 .

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 190.