Ramiro Rampinelli
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Ramiro Rampinelli, born Lodovico Rampinelli (1697 – 1759), was an Italian mathematician and physicist. He was a monk in the Olivetan Order. He had a decisive influence on the spread of mathematical analysis, algebra and mathematical physics in the best universities of Italy.[1] He is one of the best known Italian scholars in the field of infinitesimal mathematics of the first half of the 18th century.
Biography
He was born in Brescia into the noble Rampinelli family and educated by the Jesuits; he learned the rudiments of mathematics from Giovan Battista Mazini.[2]
He studied first at the University of Bologna, where he was a disciple of Gabriele Manfredi, and took his monastic vows on 1 November 1722 at San Michele in Bosco.[1]
In 1727, after a brief stay at the Monastery of St. Helen in Venice, he entered the Abbey of St. Benedict in Padua, where he made the acquaintance of the best known professors of mathematics at the University of Padua, such as Marquess Giovanni Poleni and Count Jacopo Riccati; he formed a lasting friendship with the latter's family.[3]
In 1731 he was in Rome for a year, spending time with Celestino Galiani and Antonio Leprotti, studying subjects including architecture.[1]
After a period at the University of Naples Federico II, during which time he was always in contact with the best mathematicians, such as Nicola Antonio De Martino, he was assigned by his superiors to the University of Pavia for a year. He then returned to the University of Bologna in 1733, to teach mathematics.[1] Here he completed his Istituzioni Fisiche con il metodo analitico.[4]
In 1740, after a stay at the monastery of St. Francis in Brescia, he transferred to the Olivetan monastery of San Vittore al Corso in Milan, where he was also mathematics tutor to the noblewoman Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who remembered him with gratitude in the preface to her Instituzioni Analitiche per la gioventù d'Italia.[5]
In 1747, the Senate of Milan appointed him (at double salary) to the chair in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Pavia.[6] His expertise in river hydraulics also earned him the appointment as supervisor both for the construction of the Pavia-Milan canal and for the construction of the embankment to contain the Po River at Parpanese, in the Oltrepò Pavese.[4]
In 1758 his Lectiones opticae Ramiri Rampinelii brixiani Congregationis Montis Oliveti monachi et in gymnasio Ticinensi Matheseos Professoris was published with the prestigious Brescia printer Bossini.[1] This work on optics was to have been followed by Trigonometria and Applicazione dei principi matematici alla fisica pratica, but Rampinelli suffered a stroke on 10 April 1758.[7]
After a short period of recuperation in Brescia, he returned to the monastery of San Vittore al Corso in Milan, where, on 8 February 1759, he had a second stroke and died.[4]
Giordano Riccati wrote in a supplement to his eulogy dated 9 January 1760:
In him were united doctrine and an indescribable modesty, and firm religious faith accompanied by all the moral and Christian virtues. His only thoughts were ever to fulfill the obligations of his own condition, and study his only innocent passion, by which he let himself be dominated, virtuously directing it outward in indefatigable service of his Religion and the Public. He dedicated himself willingly to others' benefit, and of benefits received, an indelible, grateful memory was preserved.[8]
Main works
Lectiones Opticae – Cover internal Besides "Lectiones Opticae", contemporary authors pointed to "Institutions of Mechanics" existing manuscript "other works" in the monastery of San Vittore in Milan. [1] Among these manuscripts, unfortunately perdure go, remember: "Application de 'principles to the physical practice" "Treaty of plane and spherical trigonometry" "Institutions Physical with the analytical method" "Treaty of hydrostatic (integrating the physical institutions)"
References
R.Rampinelli – "Lectiones Opticae Ramiro Rampinellii" – Ed. Bossini – Brescia 1760 MGAgnesi – "Analytical Institutions for Youth of Italy" – Ed.Richini – Milan 1748 "Excerpta Totius Italiae necnon Helvetia littératoria Tomo III" – 1759 CGPozzi – "In Praise of PD Ramiro Rampinelli Bresciano" – Giornale de 'Writers – Rome 1760 F.Torricelli – "De Vita Rampinelli Epistle" in "Lectiones Opticae" – Brescia 1760 G.Riccati – "Supplement to the praise of the PDR Rampinelli" – New memories to serve the Literary History – Venice 1760 A.Fabroni – "Vitae Italorum doctrina excellentium" Volume VIII – Pisa 1781 F.Mandelli – "New collection of pamphlets scientific and philosophical" of A.Calogerà – Tomo XL – Venice 1784 A.Brognoli – "Praise de 'Bresciani for excellent teaching in the eighteenth century" – Brescia 1785 P.Verri – "Memories belonging to the life and studies of P.Frisi" – Milan 1787 AFFrisi – "In Praise of Women MGAgnesi historic Milanese" – Ed.Galeazzi – Milan 1799 V.Peroni – "Library Bresciana"– Volume III – Brescia 1821 P.Gambara – "Thoughts of things homelands" Vol. IV – Brescia 1840 JCPoggendorf – "Biographisch zur Geschichte der Literarisches Handwörterbuch exacten Wissenschaften" Vol. II – Leipzig 1863 C.Cocchetti – "Del intellectual movement in the province of Brescia" – Brescia 1880 P.Guerrini – "The master of MGAgnesi" – Commentaries University of Brescia – Brescia 1918 P.Guerrini – "The Catholic School" – Vol. XVII – Milan 1919 G.Tilche – "MGAgnesi scientist saint of '700' – Ed.Rizzoli – Milan 1974 U.Baldini – "The teaching mathematical physicist at Pavia on the threshold of the Teresian" – in "Economics, institutions, culture in the age of Lombardy M.Teresa" – Vol.III. Ed.Il Mill – Milan 1980 C.Succi – "A mathematician from Brescia Ramiro Rampinelli monaco olivetano" – Old Town Olivetano Rodenecker – Brescia 1991 A.Fappani – "Encyclopedia Brescia" Vol.XIV – Ed.La Voice of the People – New York 1997 D.Bonsi – "Giordano Riccati, Venetian and European Enlightenment" – Tomo I – Ed.Olschki – Florence 2012 A letter to the PR Rampinelli P.Frisi – Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Manuscripts Y150, sheet 171 – Milan Five letters of PR Rampinelli Count GM Mazzucchelli – Bibl. Apo. Vatican – Manuscripts VAT. LAT. 10010 – Rome Letters of PR Rampinelli to Count Giordano Riccati – Bibl.Com. – Manuscripts 276 – Udine Documents relating to the work in the land fund of Parpano (Parpanese) – State Archives – Milan Author unknown – "Praise anonymous manuscript of Rampinelli" in a collection of documents relating to G. Agnesi – Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Milan
External links
Lectiones Opticae Ramiri Rampinelii brixiani Congregationis Montis Groves et monks in gymnasio Ticinensi Matheseos Professoris , Books.google from the site. URL visited October 27, 2014. A mathematician from Brescia Ramiro Rampinelli Olivetano Monaco , from the site of the University of Brescia. URL visited October 3, 2014.
References
- ^ a b c d e A. Fappani, Enciclopedia Bresciana, Brescia: La Voce del Popolo, 1997 Template:It icon
- ^ P. Guerrini, La scuola cattolica, XVII, no. 1919.
- ^ D. Bonsi, Giordano Riccati, illuminista veneto ed europeo, Florence: Olschki, 2012 Template:It icon
- ^ a b c C. Succi, Un Matematico Bresciano Ramiro Rampinelli Monaco Olivetano 1697–1759, Rodengo-Saiano (BS): Centro storico olivetano / Brescia: Ateneo di Brescia, 1992, OCLC 797874024 Template:It icon
- ^ Giovanna Tilche, Maria Gaetana Agnesi: la scienziata santa del Settecento, Milan: Rizzoli, 1984, ISBN 9788817537841 Template:It icon
- ^ U. Baldini, Economia, istituzioni, cultura in Lombardia nell'Età di M. Teresa, Milan: Il Mulino, 1980 Template:It icon
- ^ P. Guerrini, Il maestro di M. G. Agnesi, Brescia, 1918 Template:It icon
- ^ "Accoppiò egli colla dottrina una indicibile modestia, ed una soda religione accompagnata da tutte le virtù morali e cristiane. Furono sempre gli unici suoi pensieri l'adempiere gli obblighi del proprio stato, e lo studio unica innocente passione, da cui si lasciò dominare, indirizzandola per altro virtuosamente al servigio indefesso della sua Religione, e del Pubblico. S'impegnava volentieri in giovamento altrui, e dei ricevuti benefici ne conservava indelebile, grata memoria."