Valerio

Luca Valerio

Born: 1552 in Naples, Italy
Died: 17 Jan 1618 in Rome, Italy

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Valerio corresponded with Galileo whom he met in 1590 in Pisa. Valerio's De centro gravitatis , written in 1604, applied methods of Archimedes to find volumes and centres of gravity of solid bodies. He used interesting early ideas of the quotient of limits.

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  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G Gabrieli, Luca Valerio Linceo, Atti dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti 9 (1933), 691-728. 
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