Viviani, Vincenzio (1622-1703)

  • Viviani, Vincenzio, 1622-1703.
Date:
1653-1701
Reference:
MSS.4948-4950
  • Archives and manuscripts

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About this work

Description

A miscellaneous collection comprising administrative documentation, an inscription by Viviani honouring Galileo, and a treatise on land reclamation.

Publication/Creation

1653-1701

Physical description

3 items

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased 1929.

Biographical note

Viviani was a Florentine engineer and mathematician: he was elected an Associate Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1699.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

From the Galletti Collection.

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Accession number

  • 52348