Giuseppe Rosati (

Foggia Foggia (, , ; nap, label= Foggiano, Fògge ) is a city and former ''comune'' of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. In 2013, its population was 153,143. Foggia is the main city of a plain called Tavoliere, also known ...

, 21 September 1752;

, 1 September 1814) was an Italian physician, agronomist, philosopher and mathematician. He was born in

from Raffaele Rosati and Marianna Giannone. He attended the University of Medicine in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and, at the same time, he studied philosophy, agronomy and mathematics. In Naples, he started to write many works about agronomy, medicine, geography and mathematics. Upon returning to Foggia, he devoted himself to teaching the young and became the "doctor of the poor".

Main works

* ''La geografia moderna, teoretica, istorica e pratica'', Napoli, Raimondi, 1785 * ''Gli elementi dell’agrimensura teoretica e pratica'', Napoli, Raimondi, 1787 * ''Discorso sull’agricoltura di Puglia'' 1792 * ''Elementi dell’aritmetica'', Napoli, 1796 * ''Il metodo millenario'', Foggia, 1803 * ''Elementi per l’edificazione, con 11 tavole'', Napoli, Coda, 1805 * ''Le industrie di Puglia, con una carta geografica incisa dall’autore'', Foggia, Variento, 1808 * ''Breviario dell’Historia sacra'', Foggia, Russo, 1815 * ''Saggio storico sulla medicina'', Foggia, Russo, 1826 * ''Geometria pratica''. La piana, Napoli, Caggiano & C., 1832–33 18th-century Italian physicians Enlightenment scientists People from Foggia 1752 births 1814 deaths {{Italy-scientist-stub