Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (born 1598)

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Italian astronomer and priest (1598–1671)

Giovanni Battista Riccioli 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 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for…