Everything about Francesco Grimaldi totally explained
Francesco Maria Grimaldi (
April 2,
1618 -
December 28,
1663) was an
Italian mathematician and
physicist who taught at the
Jesuit college in
Bologna.
Between
1640 and
1650, working with
Riccioli, he investigated the
free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
In
astronomy, he built and used instruments to measure geological features on the
Moon, and drew an accurate map or
selenograph which was published by Riccioli.
He was the first to make accurate observations on the
diffraction of
light (although by some accounts
Leonardo da Vinci had earlier noted it), and coined the word 'diffraction'. Later physicists used his work as evidence that light was a wave, and
Isaac Newton used it to arrive at his more comprehensive theory of light.
Grimaldi crater on the
Moon was named after him.
Publications
- Physicomathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque annexis (published 1665)
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