| Pietro Di Martino | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1707-05-31)31 May 1707 Faicchio, Campania |
| Died | 28 January 1746(1746-01-28) (aged 38) Naples, Campania |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Naples |
Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.
Biography
Born in Faicchio, he was brother of Angelo, professor first of medical physics then of mathematics at the University of Naples; and of Nicola Antonio De Martino, professor di mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of Agostino Ariani and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735 he was assigned of the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.
He disputed with Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong hypothesis.
He authored various works; his Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica, published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in Turin in 1762). He died in Naples in 1746.
Works
- Degli elementi della geometria piana composti da Euclide Megarese, e tradotti in italiano, ed illustrati (in Italian). Naples: Alessio Pellecchia. 1785 .
- Philosophiae naturalis institutionum libri tres (in Latin). Naples: Felice Carlo Mosca. 1738.
- Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica (in Italian). Naples: Felice Carlo Mosca. 1739.
- Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica (in Italian). Turin: Stamperia Reale. 1762 .
- De luminis refractione et motu (in Latin). Naples. 1740.
- De corporum quae moventur viribus, earumque aestimandarum ratione (in Latin). Naples: Felice Mosca. 1741.
References
- ^ Pietro Nastasi (1990). "DE MARTINO, Pietro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 38: Della Volpe–Denza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Gargano, Mauro (2012). "Pietro Di Martino". Stardust: the cultural heritage of Italian astronomy (in Italian).