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Giovanni Battista Venturi
Giovanni Battista Venturi was an Italian physicist, Catholic priest, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science. He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his Recherches Experimentales sur le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides appliqué a l'Explication de Differens Phenomènes Hydrauliques, translated into English by W…
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science · Italian physicist, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science · physicist · also Giovanni Battista Venturi, Giambattista Venturi, Venturi
Born 1 January 1746 · Died 1 January 1822 · Q353428
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In Thomas Tredgold's Tracts on Hydraulics
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Died 1822-01-01.
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“ottica (Commentaries about the history and theory of optics), which included Hero of Alexandria”
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Venturi wrote Commentari sopra la storia e le teorie dell' ottica (Commentaries about the history and theory of optics), which included Hero of Alexandria's treatise on the dioptra and from 1818 to 1821 he compiled, edi
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Due to failing health, and was granted a pension on the maximum scale by the Emperor Napoleon
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Born 1746-01-01.
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