Beschrijving
This Giovanni Poleni portrays the marquess, physicist, mathematician and antiquarian (c. 1683–1761). After studying in Venice he became professor of astronomy at Padua at 25, chair of physics in 1715 and, in 1719, professor of mathematics after Nicholas II Bernoulli. An expert in hydraulics, he managed the waters of lower Lombardy for the Venetian Senate and arbitrated river disputes between states.
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