Giuseppe Rosati

Giuseppe Rosati (Foggia, 21 September 1752; Foggia, 1 September 1814) was an Italian physician, agronomist, philosopher and mathematician.[1]

He was born in Foggia to Raffaele Rosati and Marianna Giannone. He attended the University of Medicine in Naples and, at the same time, he studied philosophy, agronomy and mathematics.[2] In Naples, he started to write many works about agronomy, medicine, geography and mathematics. Upon returning to Foggia, he devoted himself to teaching the young and became the "doctor of the poor".

Biography

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Naples Federico II, and at the same time studied and conducted research in various scientific disciplines such as mathematics, geography, architecture, and agronomy. Upon his return to Foggia in 1804, he was awarded a professorship in Agriculture, later Rural Economics, at the College of the Piarist Fathers, and in 1810 he became president of the Agricultural Society, later the Royal Economic Society of Capitanata di Foggia.[3] Nicknamed the Newton of Puglia,[4] he devoted his energies to the training and education of young people and wrote numerous works in various fields of his culture.

Main works

  • La geografia moderna, teoretica, istorica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1785
  • Gli elementi dell’agrimensura teoretica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1787
  • Discorso sull’agricoltura di Puglia 1792
  • Elementi dell’aritmetica, Napoli, 1796
  • Il metodo millenario, Foggia, 1803
  • Elementi per l’edificazione, con 11 tavole, Napoli, Coda, 1805
  • Le industrie di Puglia, con una carta geografica incisa dall’autore, Foggia, Variento, 1808
  • Breviario dell’Historia sacra, Foggia, Russo, 1815
  • Saggio storico sulla medicina, Foggia, Russo, 1826
  • Geometria pratica. La piana, Napoli, Caggiano & C., 1832–33

References

  1. ^ Mangano, Alberto (3 December 2015). "Giuseppe Rosati". Manganofoggia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Giuseppe Rosati: lo scienziato che donò a Foggia la modernità". Foggia Reporter (in Italian). 6 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Giuseppe Rosati".
  4. ^ "Giuseppe Rosati: lo scienziato che donò a Foggia la modernità".


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.