Ascanio II Piccolomini
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Shovel of Ascanio Piccolomini in the Accademia della Crusca
Ascanio Piccolomini (1590–1671) was the archbishop of Siena from 1629 to 1671.[1]
Ascanio was a mathematics pupil of Bonaventura Cavalieri.[2] He hosted Galileo in Siena.[3] According to Dava Sobel, Galileo's ability "to rise from the ashes of his condemnation by the Inquisition" and complete perhaps his most influential book, the Two New Sciences, was "due in large measure to Piccolomini's solicitous kindness".[4]
He was the younger brother of commander Ottavio Piccolomini.
References
- Rufus Suter, A Note on the Identity of Ascanio Piccolomini, Galileo's Host at Siena, Isis, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 1965), p. 452
Notes
- ↑ Archbishop Ascanio Piccolomini [Catholic-Hierarchy]
- ↑ The Galileo Project
- ↑ Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (2003), p. 357.
- ↑ Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter (2000), p. 287
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