Alessandro Marchetti (17 March 1633 – 6 September 1714) was an Italian mathematician, noted for criticizing some conclusions of

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, a student of

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who was influenced by Galileo and

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. In 1669 Marchetti completed the first known Italian vernacular translation of

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' Epicurean epic poem '' De Rerum Natura''. He was denied permission to publish his translation, entitled ''Della Natura delle Cose'', but it circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printing in 1717.

References

Works

Marchetti, Alessandro – De resistentia solidorum, 1669 – BEIC 859692

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Literature

* Jonathan Israel, ''Radical Enlightenment'', Oxford University Press, 2002. . * Cosmo Gordon, ''A Bibliography of Lucretius'', Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. ASIN B000OJYRQ0.

External links

* 17th-century Italian mathematicians 18th-century Italian mathematicians 1633 births 1714 deaths People from Empoli {{Italy-mathematician-stub