Biography:Candido del Buono
Candido del Buono (22 July 1618, Florence – 19 September 1676, Campoli[1]) was an Italian scientific instrument maker. Candido del Buono, a Florentine priest, attended Famiano Michelini's (1604–1665) mathematics lectures with his brother Paolo Del Buono (1625-1659). Del Buono was the Chamberlain of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and a member of the Accademia del Cimento, where he presented several instruments of his invention.[2] He invented an aerometer and constructed a device to measure the density of vapor.[1] There is no clear documentary evidence of whether he or his other brother Anton Maria Del Buono was the inventor of the arcicanna, a complex system that solved some typical problems of large telescopes in the second half of the 17th century.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres complètes. Tome III. Correspondance 1660-1661". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huyg003oeuv03_01/huyg003oeuv03_01_0080.php. (in French)
- ↑ Bedini, Silvio A. Patrons, Artisans, and Instruments of Science, 1600–1750. Vol. 635. Variorum, 1999. pp. 42–44.
- ↑ Monaco, Giuseppe (1998). "Strumentaria Alcune Considerazioni sul Maximus Tubus di Hevelius". Nuncius 13 (2): 533–550.
External links
- "Candido del Buono". Catalogue of the Museo Galileo's Instruments on Display. Italy: Museo Galileo. http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/CandidoBuono.html.
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