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Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (21 August 1665 – 1 December 1729) was a French-Italian astronomer and mathematician. His name is also given as Jacques Philippe Maraldi. Born in Perinaldo (modern Liguria) he was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory (1687 – 1718). He also is the uncle of Jean-Dominique Maraldi.
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From 1700 until 1718 he worked on a catalog of fixed stars, and from 1672 until 1719 he studied Mars extensively. His most famous astronomical discovery was that the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. He also recognized (in May 1724) that the corona visible during a solar eclipse belongs to the Sun not to the Moon,[1] and he discovered R Hydrae as a variable star. He also helped with the survey based on the Paris Meridian.
In 1723[2] he also confirmed earlier (1715) discovery of his pupil Joseph-Nicolas Delisle of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation that was unrecognized until its rediscovery in the early 19th century by Dominique Arago. At the time of Arago's discovery, Poisson's spot gave convincing evidence for the contested wave nature of light.[3]
In mathematics he is most known for obtaining the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape in 1712, which is still called the Maraldi angle. [citation needed]
Craters on the Moon and Mars were named in his and his nephew's honor. [citation needed]
References
- "Chronology of Discoveries About the Sun". MrEclipse.com. 1999. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- Maraldi, G.F. (1723). "Diverses expèriences d'optique" [Various optical experiments]. Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences ... Avec les Mémoires de Mathématique & de Physique (in French): 111–143. From p. 140: "La lumiere plus grande au milieu des boules plus petites, fait voir qu'elle circule en plus grande abondance & plus facilement autour des petites boules qu'autour des grandes." (More light in the middle of the smaller balls shows that it [i.e., light] spreads in greater abundance and more easily around small balls than around big [ones].) Fig. 8 on Plate 6 (following p. 142) shows light at the center of a ball's shadow.
- Hecht, Eugene (2002), Optics (4th ed.), United States of America: Addison Wesley, p. 494, ISBN 0-8053-8566-5
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[de] Giacomo Filippo Maraldi
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (* 21. August 1665 in Perinaldo; † 1. Dezember 1729; auch Jacques Philippe Maraldi und Jacopo Filippo Maraldi) war ein französisch-italienischer Astronom und Mathematiker. Er war der Neffe von Giovanni Domenico Cassini und der Onkel von Jean-Dominique Maraldi (Maraldi II).- [en] Giacomo F. Maraldi
[es] Jacques Philippe Maraldi
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi, conocido también como Jacques Philippe Maraldi (Perinaldo, Italia; 21 de agosto de 1665-París, 1 de diciembre de 1729), sobrino del astrónomo italiano Giovanni Cassini, fue un matemático y astrónomo italiano; se lo conoce con el sobrenombre de Maraldi I, para diferenciarlo de su sobrino, el también astrónomo Jean-Dominique Maraldi (Maraldi II) (1709-1788).[it] Giacomo Filippo Maraldi
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (Perinaldo, 1665 – Parigi, 1729) è stato un astronomo italiano.[ru] Маральди, Жак Филипп
Жак Фили́пп Маральди (фр. Jacques Philippe Maraldi; 21 августа 1665 — 1 декабря 1729) — французский астроном и математик.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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