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Rudjer Boscovich

Rudjer Boscovich

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Notwithstanding the arduous duties of his professorship, he found time for investigation in all the fields of physical science, and he published a very large number of dissertations, some of them of considerable length. Among the subjects were the transit of Mercury, the Aurora Borealis (corona), the figure of the Earth, the observation of the fixed stars, the inequalities in terrestrial gravitation, the application of mathematics to the theory of the telescope, the limits of certainty in astronomical observations, the solid of greatest attraction, the cycloid, the logistic curve, the theory of comets, the tides, the law of continuity, the double refraction micrometer, various problems of spherical trigonometry.
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Boscovich Rudjer

I don't know allot of people in history that have accomplished what this man as. He was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He became a Jesuit and taught at Rome, Pavia, and Milan. His story travels from academics, to religion, to even the military, assisting the French Navy developing optics.