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Authorised form of nameConti; Antonio Schinella (1677 - 1749)
Dates1677 - 1749
NationalityItalian
Place of birthPadua, Italy
Date of birth22 January 1677
Place of deathPadua, Italy
Date of death06 April 1749
OccupationClergyman, Roman Catholic
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Padua (admitted 1708)
Career:
Entered the Order of the Oratorians (1699); ordained priest; left the order (1708); travelled to France (1713-1715), to England (1715-1718), to Holland and Germany (1716), and to France again (1718-1726); on his return to Italy was a focal point for science in the Venetian Republic; died of apoplexy
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/11/1715
RelationshipsSon of Pio Conti and his wife, Lucrezia Nani
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DBI
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton
CodeNA6718
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/82Correspondence of Dr Brook Taylor, Secretary of the Royal Society1712-1717
MS/790/28Letter from Antonio Conti, Venice, to [Martin Folkes] 9 July 1733
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