Biography:Paolo Del Buono
Paolo Del Buono (1625-1659) was an Italian scientific instrument maker.
A Florentine disciple of Famiano Michelini (1604-1665),[1] Paolo Del Buono received his doctorate from the University of Pisa in 1649. In 1655, he went to Germany to enter the service of Ferdinand III (Emperor from 1637 to 1657) and was appointed director of the Imperial Mint. During his stay, with his student Geminiano Montanari (1633-1687), he visited the imperial mines in the Carpathian mountains and invented a method of extracting water. Del Buono performed wide-ranging research in physics and experimental science. Paolo and his brother Candido Del Buono (1618-1676) both belonged to the Accademia del Cimento,[2] with whom Paolo corresponded from Germany.[3]
He is also noted for an experiment in 1657 which showed the incompessibility of water where water compressed in a gold shell by a screw seeped through pores in the gold,[4] and for introducing into Tuscany an Egyptian method of raising chickens whereby the eggs are hatched by gradually introducing heat to them.[5][6]
References
- ↑ October 26, 1625 - 1662 according to: de Lalande, Joseph Jérôme François. Voyage d'un François en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766. Vol. 2. 1769. p343-344
- ↑ Clifford Truesdell Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 6. Springer-Verlag, 1970
- ↑ Boschiero, Luciano. Experiment and natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Tuscany: The history of the Accademia del Cimento. Vol. 21. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007. p98-99
- ↑ Hutton, Charles. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary Containing... Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Authors. Vol. 1. Printed for the Author (London), 1815. p12
- ↑ de Lalande, Joseph Jérôme François. Voyage d'un François en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766. Vol. 2. 1769. p343-344
- ↑ Grosley, Pierre Jean. New Observations on Italy and its inhabitants. Vol. 2. L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1769. p309-310
Link
- Museo Galileo. "Paolo Del Buono". Catalogue of the Museo Galileo's Instruments on Display. catalogue.museogalileo.it
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