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Conte Carlo Antonio Manzini (1599–1677/1678) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. (His last name is sometimes given as Mangini or Mansini).

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A member of the Bolognese nobility, he was one of the founders of the Accademia dei Vespertini. In 1626 he published Tabulae primi mobilis: quibus nova dirigendi ars et praecipue circuli positionis inventio, non minus facilis quam exacta ostenditur. This volume presented tables for the construction of astrological charts.

His 1660 work, L'occhiale all'occhio, dioptrica practica, is one of the oldest accounts of the techniques for manufacturing lenses through grinding and polishing. Manzini was in close personal contact with the two principal makers of telescopes in Italy, Francesco Fontana and Eustachio Divini. A portrait of Divini is included in his book which forms a complete practical manual for the artisan in the construction of both microscopes and telescopes.

Sources list his year of death as 1677 or 1678. The crater Manzinus on the Moon is named after him.

Works

• Tabulae primi mobilis, quibus nova dirigendi ars, et praecipue circuli positionis inventio non minus facilis, quam exacta ostenditur (in Latin). Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini. 1626.
• Manzini, Carlo Antonio (1650). Della sicura incertezza nella declinatione dell'ago magnetico dal meridiano, del modo di terminar l'ombre gnomoniche con altre invenzioni utili (in Italian). Bologna: Evangelista Dozza (1.), eredi.
• Stella Gonzaga sive geographica ad terrarum orbis ambitum, et meridianorum differentias (in Latin). Bologna: Evangelista Dozza (1.), eredi. 1654.
• Occhiale all'occhio (in Italian). Bologna: eredi Vittorio Benacci. 1660.
• Comete (in Italian). Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni. 1665.

Bibliography

• Bellé, Riccardo (2009). "L'occhiale all'occhio. Un testo del XVII secolo sulla costruzione dei telescopi". Atti de la Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi. Florence. LXIV (3): 453.

External links

• Matt, Luigi (2007). "MANZINI, Carlo Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 69: Mangiabotti–Marconi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• "The Description of a Way, Said to be New and Universal for Working Convex Spherical Glasses upon a Plain, for All Practicable Lengths, without Other Dishes or Concave Moulds". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 3: 837–840. 1668. JSTOR 101314.
• Libra antichi - Biblioteca "Guido Horn d'Arturo"
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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Carlo Antonio Manzini (talvolta scritto Mangini o Mansini) (Bologna, 5 ottobre 1600 – 1677) è stato un astronomo e matematico italiano. Nobile bolognese[1], era il fratello di Luigi Manzini (1604–1657), famoso teologo e scrittore[2] e del romanziere Giovanni Battista Manzini.[1]

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