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Italian astronomer and priest (–)

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He was born in Ferrara, Italy on April 17th in the year , died in the in Bologna.

April 17 is Giovanni Battista Riccioli's birthday.

For other uses, see Riccioli (disambiguation).

Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17 April – 25 June ) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

He is also widely known for discovering the first double star. He argued that the rotation of the Earth should reveal itself because on a rotating Earth, the ground moves at different speeds at different times.

Biography

Riccioli was born in Ferrara.^[1] He entered the Society of Jesus on 6 October After completing his novitiate, he began to study humanities in , pursuing those studies first at Ferrara, and then at Piacenza.

From to he studied philosophy and theology at the College of Pa