MANFREDI

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MANFREDI, Eustachio ; an eminent mathematician and astronomer, born in 1674, at Bologna, in Italy. He applied himself to the cultivation of mathematical science, and, in 1698, was appointed professor of mathematics in the university of Bologna. In conjunction with Victor Stancari, he commenced a series of astronomical observations, of which he afterwards published an account in his Scheda Mathematics. In 1703 appeared his treatise on the Solar Maculae; and the following year he was chosen regent of the college of Montalto, and also surveyorgeneral of the rivers and waters of the Bolognese territories. In 1705, he published a work on the Reformation of the Calendar; and he afterwards began the composition of his Ephemerides Motuum c&lestium, which he carried on from 1715 to 1725. On the foundation of the institute of Bologna, in 1712, Manfredi was appointed astronomer to that establishment. He was admitted an associate of the royal academy of sciences at Paris, and, in 1729, a foreign member of the royal society of London. He died in 1739. Besides the works already noticed, he was the author of other mathematical and astronomical productions; and after his death, appeared a volume of his poems.