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Vincenzo Viviani (April 5, 1622 – September 22, 1703) was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo.
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Apr 5, 2012 · 5 April 1622. Florence (now Italy) Died. 22 September 1703. Florence (now Italy) Summary. Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian engineer who worked on the geometry of the cycloid. View three larger pictures. Biography.
Vincenzo Viviani (1622-1703) Vincenzo Viviani was born and raised in Florence where early on he attracted attention for his abilities in mathematics. In 1639, at age 17, he became the student, secretary and assistant of Galileo (now blind) in Arcetri.
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association with Galileo. …according to his first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703), Galileo demonstrated, by dropping bodies of different weights from the top of the famous Leaning Tower, that the speed of fall of a heavy object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had claimed.
Mar 24, 2020 · Among these names, a layman (like me) is likely to recognize, besides Vincenzo Galilei, the astronomer’s son, only the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703), Galileo’s most devoted student, whose influential Racconto istorico was drafted in 1654 but published only in 1717.
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Vincenzo Viviani. (1622—1703) Quick Reference. (1622–1703) Italian mathematician. Viviani, who was born at Florence in Italy, was an associate and pupil of Galileo, although his chief interest was in mathematics rather than in physics.
Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) was an Italian mathematician who studied under Evangelista Torricelli and later became an assistant and lifelong friend and admirer of Galileo Galilei. He wrote multiple works on the conic sections, including his De Maximis et Minimis of 1659. A plate of his illustrations:
