Biography:Giovanni Pagnini
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Short description: Maltese mathematician and hydrographer
Giovanni Pagnini was an 18th-century Maltese mathematician and hydrographer.[1][2]
He was a member of the Knights Hospitaller.[1]
Born in Lucca, Italy, Pagnini came to Malta known as the "Hydrographer of the Order" and the knowledge he brought was instrumental in the foundation of Malta's School of Navigation.[3]
Pagnini mainly expanded on theoretical mathematics, but his text Compasso di Proporzioni is focused on detailing new compass-like tools (ex: "La Linea Aritmetica", "La Linea dei Piani[o] Linea Geometrica", "La Linea Cubica [o] Linea de Solidi") for construction and navigation purposes.[3]
Works
- Pagnini, Giovanni (1724) (in it). Compendio di Trigonometria Piana.
- Pagnini, Giovanni (1728) (in it). Trionfo in Mare ossia Scuola di CommandareArmate e Vascelli da Guerra, cosi per la manovra come per Caccia e Combattere il Nemico.
- Pagnini, Giovanni (in it). Dell'Estrazione delle radici quadrati e cube.
- Pagnini, Giovanni (1750) (in it). Trattato della sfera, ed introduzione alla navigazione per uso de' piloti. Venice: Giovanni Battista Recurti. https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=11342161.
- Pagnini, Giovanni (1753) (in it). Costruzione ed uso del compasso di proporzione. Naples: Ignazio Russo. https://books.google.com/books?id=d1cJBVLI_8YC.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 D'Ayala, Mariano (1854) (in it). Bibliografia militare italiana antica e moderna. Turin: Stamperia Reale. p. 177. https://books.google.com/books?id=WwwUIGL4kwwC&pg=PA177.
- ↑ (in it) Memorie della Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. 4. Bologna: Tip. Gamberini e Parmeggiani. 1882. p. 500. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_goAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA500.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Malta - a case study in international cross-currents. Malta University Publications. 13–17 December 1989. pp. 130–133. https://mhs.mt/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CrossCurrents_1989.pdf. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
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