Authorised form of name | Beccari; Giacomo Bartolommeo (1682 - 1766) |
Other forms of name | Iacopo Bartolommeo |
Dates | 1682 - 1766 |
Nationality | Italian |
Place of birth | Bologna, Italy |
Date of birth | 25 July 1682 |
Place of death | Bologna, Italy |
Date of death | ? 19 January 1766 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Church of the Baraccano |
Occupation | Physician |
Research field | Physiology |
Chemistry |
Activity | Education: Bologna; BA, MB (1704) Career: Lecturer in Logic at Bologna (1709); Professor of Theoretical Medicine (1712), then Professor of Practical Medicine at the University of Bologna; taught experimental physics (1714) and chemistry (1734) at the Academy of Bologna; Professor of Chemistry at the University (the first chair of chemistry in Italy) (1737-1749); declined the chair of medicine at Padau and the post of Chief Physician to Pope Benedict XIV Memberships: Accademia degli Inquieti; Istituto e Accademia bolognesi delle Scienze e delle Arte
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 27/06/1728 |
Proposer | Sir Thomas Dereham |
Sir Hans Sloane |
James Jurin |
Relationships | Son of Romeo Beccari and his wife, Flaminia Vittoria Maccarini |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DBI; Hirsch References: Marta Cavazza, 'The Institute of Science of Bologna and the Royal Society in the eighteenth century' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 3-25, plate |
Code | NA5687 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
RBO/13/43 | Account of the aurora borealis witnessed at Florence on 19 October 1726 by Bartholomew Beccari | 1728 |
LBO/19/100 | Copy letter from Jacomo Bertolommeo Beccari, Bologna, to William Rutty | 17 October 1728 |
EL/B3/2 | Letter, from Eustachio Manfredi to Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari, dated at Bologna | 26 October 1728 |
EL/B3/1 | Letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to William Rutty | 1728 |
CLP/4i/79 | Paper, regarding observations of the aurora borealis seen at Florence on 19 October 1726 by Signor Beccari | 1728 |
EL/B3/3 | Letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to Thomas Dereham, dated at Bologna | October 1728 |
EL/B3/4 | Translation of a letter, from Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari to Thomas Dereham, dated at Bologna | 1728 |