Bust of the Croatian physicist, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest and polymath Roger Joseph Boscovic (1711-1787) in Zagreb, Croatia
Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ (8 May 1711 - 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works. Boscovich produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position. In 1753 he also discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon.
Size: 3840px × 5760px
Location: Trg Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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