Roger Joseph Boscovich
Croatian-Italian priest and mathematician
Died when: 75 years 271 days (908 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ (Croatian: Ruder Josip Boškovic; pronounced [rûd??er josip bô?ko?it??];Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich;
Latin: Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa.
He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.Boscovich produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position.
In 1753 he also discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon.
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