| Authorised form of name | Revillas; Didacus de (fl 1731 - 1734) |
| Dates | fl 1731 - 1734 |
| Place of birth | Milan, Italy, Europe |
| Date of birth | 4 July 1690 |
| Date of death | 1740 |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Roman Catholic |
| Research field | Metrology |
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| Physiology |
| Meteorology |
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| Mathematics |
| Astronomy |
| Antiquities |
| Activity | Career:
Member of the religious order of Girolaminians (joined September 1710); came to Rome in 1721; lived in the monastery of St Alessio and Bonifacio on the Aventine Hill in Rome; Abbot of St Jerome, Rome; Chair of Mathematics, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' (1725); carried out trigonometrical survey of central Italy; tutor to the Stuart princes in exile
Memberships:
Academy of Sciences of Bologna; Academy of Arcadians in Piacenza; Academie Royale des Sciences, Paris
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/06/1734 |
| Relationships | Son of Pietras Revillas Vallexo, in service of the Spanish court in Milan; worked with Anders Celsius |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll (from Iocher); Early Letters (EL/R1/74-75) for dates and career; Pedley, M. (1991). The manuscript papers of Diego de Revillas in the Archive of the British School at Rome. Papers of the British School at Rome, 59, 319-324. doi:10.1017/S0068246200009752 (accessed 18 Noveber 2020) |
| Code | NA1124 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RBO/16/25 | 'Lunaris Corona Romae observata Anno 1731' by Didacus de Revillas | 1731 |
| RBO/20/41 | 'Observations of the late Comet and Solar Eclipse by Didacus de Revillas, Abbot of St Jerome' | 1737 |
| EC/1734/05 | Revillas, Didacus de: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 13 June 1734 |
| L&P/1/130 | Paper, 'Excerpta ex ephemeridus meteorologicis Romanis anni 1741' by Didacus de Revillas | 1742 |
| CLP/8ii/38 | Paper, 'Observatio eclipse lunaris Romae habita die 1 Decembris 1732' [Observations of the lunar eclipse in Rome on 1 December 1732] by D Didacus Revillas | 1732 |
| CLP/8ii/61 | Paper, regarding observations of a comet witnessed from the Aventine in Rome by Didacus Revillas | 1737 |
| CLP/8ii/77a | Letter extract, 'Observatio Eclipseos Telluris Romae habita in aedibus eminentissimi cardinalis' [observations of the solar eclipse made at the house of an eminent Cardinal in Rome], from Didacus de Revillas [Diego Ravillas] to Eustachio Manfredi | [1734] |
| L&P/1/269 | Letter, 'Concerning a case of tumour' from Johanne Francisco de Camillis to Didacus de Revillas | 1743 |