Barocius

Franciscus Barocius

Born: 9 Aug 1537 in Candia (now Iraklion), Crete
Died: 23 Nov 1604 in Venice, Italy

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Francesco Barozzi (or in Latin Barocius) was part of a movement to revive science by studying Greek texts. He translated Proclus's edition of Euclid' Elements which was published in Venice in 1560. He translated many other works by Heron, Pappus and Archimedes.

Barozzi wrote his own books too, for example one on 13 ways to draw two parallel lines. In 1587 he was brought before the Inquisition and charged with causing a torrential rain storm in Crete. Found guilty of this Barozzi had to provide silver crosses at the cost of 100 ducats and received a suspended prison sentence.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. B Boncompagni, Intorno alla vita ed ai labori de Francesco Barozzi, Bull. Bibliographia e di storia della scienze matematiche 17 (1884), 795-848.
  3. Francesco Barozzi, Dizionario biografico degli italiani VI (1964), 495-499. 
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