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Celio Calcagnini (Ferrara, 17 September 1479 – Ferrara, 24 April 1541), also known as Caelius Calcagninus, was an Italian humanist and scientist from Ferrara. His learning as displayed in his collected works is very broad.[1]

He had a wide experience: as soldier, academic, diplomat and in the chancery of Ippolito d'Este. He was consulted by Richard Croke on behalf of Henry VIII of England in the question of the latter's divorce.[2] He was a major influence on Rabelais's literary and linguistic ideas and is presumed to have met him in Italy, as well as being a teacher of Clément Marot[3] and was praised by Erasmus.[4]

Giovanni Battista Giraldi was a student of his, and succeeded him at the University of Ferrara.

He had a contemporary reputation as an astronomer, and wrote on the rotation of the Earth. He knew Copernicus in Ferrara at the beginning of the sixteenth century.[5] His Quod Caelum Stet, Terra Moveatur is a precursor of the De Revolutionibus of Copernicus, though A. C. Crombie qualifies his rotational theory as "vague",[6] and is often dated to about 1525.[7]

Works

• Opera aliquot (1544)

Notes

External links

• Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Celio Calcagnini in .jpg and .tiff format.

На других языках

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- [en] Celio Calcagnini

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[ru] Кальканьини, Челио

Че́лио Кальканьи́ни (устар. Целио или Целий, итал. Celio Calcagnini, 17 сентября 1479[1], Феррара — 24 апреля 1541[1], Феррара) — итальянский гуманист и учёный-универсал — филолог, поэт, комедиограф, историк, переводчик, натурфилософ и астроном[2]. Свои латинские труды он подписывал: Caelius Calcagninus. Профессор Университета Феррары. Один из предшественников идеи Николая Коперника о вращении Земли.

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