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Title: | The status of astronomy in Naples before the foundation of the Capodimonte Observatory | Authors: | GARGANO, MAURO | Issue Date: | 2017 | Volume: | Atti del XXXVI Convegno annuale della Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia (SISFA) | Editors: | Esposito, Salvatore | First Page: | 205 | Abstract: | During the years in which astronomy turned into a modern science, the contribution of Neapolitan scientists was not negligible; it is enough to mention Giovan Battista Della Porta and Francesco Fontana. However the University of Naples created the chair of astronomy only in 1734 without instruments and a site where carrying out astronomical observations. Therefore the Neapolitan astronomers were forced to use private observatories such as that of the College of the Piarists and of Lord Acton. Unfortunately the dispatches of 1750 and 1768, as well as the Royal Decree of 1791, for the foundation of an Observatory in Naples did not come along. The Astronomical Observatory of Naples was just established in 1807 in the old monastery of San Gaudioso. Then, in 1812, Murat decreed the construction of the new building at Capodimonte. Nevertheless the Neapolitan astronomers were esteemed throughout Europe for their observational and theoretical contributions to the development of astronomy. | Conference Name: | XXXVI Convegno Nazionale annuale della Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia (SISFA) | Conference Place: | Napoli | Conference Date: | 4-7 ottobre 2016 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24931 | URL: | http://www.paviauniversitypress.it/articolo/9788869520709-c19/541 | ISBN: | 978-88-6952-069-3 | DOI: | 10.23739/9788869520709/c19 | Fulltext: | open |
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