Vincenzo Renieri

Vincenzo Renieri , also Vincenzio Reinieri or Vincentino Reiner (born March 30, 1606 in Genoa , † November 5, 1647 ) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He was a friend and student of Galileo Galilei .

Life

Renieri was a member of the Olivetans who sent him to Rome in 1623. From 1636 he taught mathematics and astronomy privately in Genoa, where the patrician son Daniele Spinola was one of his students. Renieri met Galileo after his trial in Siena in 1633 and later in his home in Arcetri near Florence , where he was under house arrest. He became his follower and was also friends with the Galileo student Vincenzo Viviani . On behalf of Galileo, he improved the astronomical tables of Jupiter's moons based on his own observations. Galileo also left him with all of his own observations and calculations on his death. Reineri published tables of the moons of Jupiter in 1639. Predicting the movement of Jupiter's moons had (such as Galileo found) potential applications in one of the biggest unsolved problems of that time, the determination of longitude at sea (see length problem ). Most of his posthumous records and letters disappeared soon after his death, including those of Galileo that were in his possession (they were stolen).

Renieri became a mathematics professor at the University of Pisa as the successor to Dino Peri . He also taught Greek. His own successor was Famiano Michelini .

The lunar crater Reiner and Reiner Gamma on the moon is named after him.

literature

• Antonio Favaro Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo Galilei XII. Vincenzo Renieri , Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Volume 64, Part 2, 1904/5, pp. 111-195 (there the theft of Renieri's papers is discussed)

Fonts

• Expugnata Hierusalem, poema , Macerata : Petrum Salvionum, 1628
• Tabulae mediceae secundorum mobilium universales quibus per unicum prosthaphaereseon orbis canonem planetarum calculus exhibetur. Non solum tychonicè iuxta Rudolphinas Danicas & Lansbergianas, sed etiam iuxta Prutenicas Alphonsinas & Ptolemaicas , Florence: Amatoris Massae & Laurentij de Landis, 1639
• Tabulæ motuum cælestium universales: serenissimi magni ducis etruriæ Ferdinandi II. Auspicijs primo editæ, & Mediceæ nuncupati, nunc vero auctæ, recognitæ, atque ... Bernardini Fernandez de Velasco ... iussu, ac sumptibus recusæ ... , Florence: Amatoris Massæ Foroliuien, 1647

Web links

• Literature by and about Vincenzo Renieri in the WorldCat bibliographic database