Baldassarre Boncompagni
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Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 10 May 1821 – Rome, 13 April 1894), prince of Piombino, was an Italian historian of mathematics.
He edited Bollettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche ("The bulletin of bibliography and history of mathematical and physical sciences") (1868-1887), the first Italian periodical entirely dedicated to the history of mathematics.[1] He edited every article that appeared in the journal.[2]
He also took care of the first modern edition of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci.
He was from the same family as Pope Gregory XIII.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Massimo Mazzotti (2000): For science and fot the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome, BJHS, 33, pp. 257-282
- ^ A. Favaro, `Don Baldassarre Boncompagni e la storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche ', Atti del Regio Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (1894-5), 6, pp. 509-21, 514, cited in Massimo Mazzotti (2000): For science and for the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome, BJHS, 33, pp. 257-282
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"Balthasar Boncompagni". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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