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Roger Boscovich

Roger Joseph Boscovich
Rudjer Boskovic.jpg
Portrait by Robert Edge Pine, London, 1760.
Born (1711-05-18)18 May 1711
Dubrovnik, Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Croatia)
Died 13 February 1787(1787-02-13) (aged 75)
Milan, Duchy of Milan (modern-day Italy)
Residence Dubrovnik, Rome, Venice, Paris, Constantinople, Milan, Bassano
Citizenship Republic of Ragusa
Fields Theology, Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Natural philosophy, Diplomacy, Poetry
Institutions Brera Observatory
University of Pavia
Alma mater Collegio Romano
Known for Precursor of the Atomic theory
Founder of Brera Observatory
Influences G. W. Leibniz

Roger Joseph Boscovich (Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković, pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ], Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich,Latin: Rodericus Iosephus Boscovicus; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the city of Dubrovnik (modern-day Croatia), who studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works. He was nicknamed the Croatian Leibniz by Werner Heisenberg.

He 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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