Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi (28 October 1764 – 26 September 1852) was an Italian
archdeacon,
scientist
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,
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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political economist
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He also wrote a book about
pedagogy
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and invented the
tonograph The tonograph ( it, tonografo) is a device invented by Italian scientist Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi (1764-1852) and presented at the ''Terza riunione degli scienziati italiani'' (the "Third Meeting of Italian Scientists"), held in Florence in Septemb ...
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Life
Born at
Altamura, in what is now
Apulia, he taught
mathematics and
physics
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in the
University of Altamura under the rectorship of Msgr.
Gioacchino de Gemmis. In 1799 he first moved to
Florence
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, where he worked as a teacher and then he moved to the
University of Naples Federico II
The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...
where he became a professor of statistics and of economics, and a member of the
Royal Society of Encouragement to Natural Sciences of Naples.
He also became head of the Office of Statistics and Trade of the
Kingdom of Naples, under
Joachim Murat
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's rule, and he kept that position until 1821. He was a frequent contributor to the Italian journal ''Il progresso delle scienze, delle lettere e delle arti'', of which he was also editor for a short time. In 1848, at age of 84, he was elected member of the newly born Parliament of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; he was involved in the riots of Naples on 15 May 1848 and, because of this, he ended up under trial in Naples. He died in 1852, aged 88, after a trial session.
Honors
* Knight of Justice of the
Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
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* Knight (title held even after 1815 thanks to the
Treaty of Casalanza)
* ''Beneficio semplice'' of San Vito in
Vietri di Potenza
* Knight of the
Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies
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Academies
* Member of the
Accademia dell'Arcadia
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, with the title ''Arcade'' (1827-?);
* Founding member of the
Accademia Pontaniana
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Relatives
* Ippolito de Samuele Cagnazzi - father
* Livia Nesti - mother
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Giuseppe de Samuele Cagnazzi (1763-1837) - brother
* Ippolito de Samuele Cagnazzi - brother
* Elisabetta de Gemmis (?-1799) - sister in law (Giuseppe's wife)
* Maria Elisabetta de Samuele Cagnazzi, nicknamed "Bettina" (1809-1900) - nephew
* Giuseppe Pomarici Santomasi - nephew
* Maria de Samuele Cagnazzi - nephew
* Pietro Martucci - grandnephew (Maria de Samuele Cagnazzi's son)
* Ippolito de Samuele Cagnazzi - nephew
Works
* ''Istituzioni di matematica e fisica''
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* ''Tavole di mortalità in Napoli e nelle provincie ... lette ... 1828'', 1832.
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References
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19th-century Italian scientists
19th-century Italian mathematicians
Italian economists
19th-century Italian inventors
1764 births
1852 deaths
People from Altamura
Political economists
Catholic clergy scientists
University of Altamura faculty
18th-century Italian inventors
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people