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ON September 30 of last year, there passed away at Padua, Antonio Nobile Favaro, widely known for his numerous contributions to the history of mathematics and physics. Born at Padua on May 21, 1847, educated at the University of Padua and at the engineering schools at Turin and Zurich, he entered in 1875 upon his long career as professor of projective geometry at Padua. His “Lezioni di statica grafica” (1877) were soon after translated into French. So early as 1873 he began the study of the history of science by a contribution on the evolution of planimeters. For nearly half a century he worked assiduously on questions dealing with the history of mathematical instruments, with papers and letters of Tycho Brahe, N. Tartaglia, Leonardo da Vinci, and others.
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CAJORI, F. Prof. A. N. Favaro. Nature 111, 368 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111368c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111368c0