Giovanni Antonelli
Italian scientist
Died when: 53 years 105 days (639 months)Star Sign: Libra
Giovanni Antonelli (1 October 1818 – 14 January 1872) was an Italian scientist, astronomer and engineer.Antonelli was born in Pistoia, Tuscany.A Catholic priest, he was director of the Ximenian Observatory of Florence from 1851 until his death.
In 1858 he installed a lightning rod designed by himself and on the Florence cathedral.Again with Father Cecchi, he collaborated in the design of a prototype of internal combustion engine with Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci.
Father Antonelli wrote numerous treatises, concerning various arguments from astronomy to mathematics, hydraulics and others; he also published a comment to astronomical passages in the Divine Comedy.
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